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Image: Giant squid from Saint Paul Island

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Description: The giant squid that washed ashore on Île Saint-Paul on 2 November 1874, later described as Architeuthis mouchezi (nomen nudum) and Mouchezis sancti-pauli, and Ommastrephes mouchezi
Title: Giant squid from Saint Paul Island
Credit: Vélain, C. (1877). Passage de Vénus sur le Soleil (9 Décembre 1874). Expédition française aux Iles Saint-Paul et Amsterdam. Zoologie. Observations générales sur la faune des deux iles suivies d'une description des mollusques. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 6: 1–144.
Author: L. Dumont (?)
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