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One numeric way you can tell a squid from an octopus is a squid has ten rather than eight tentacles, but you have to be able to count to ten.
And how do cuttlefish fit in? Purely as a matter of scientific interest. I have eaten calamari, and seen whole baby squid in seafood soups, but on the whole would rather not eat anything with more limbs than me.
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on the whole (I) would rather not eat anything with more limbs than meI couldn't have put it better myself, my dear Bingley!  Calamari is Spanish for squid no matter which way you cook the poor critters.
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we'd need a expert on cephlapods to explain how squids and cuttle fish differ.
squids, cuttlefish and octopus are all members of the same family.
squids and octopus have 'hard,bony beaks' at their mouths, and squids and cuttle fish have a small hard plate (not bone, but hard) that gives their body's some shape (the shape of this hard plate is sort of a flattened cone.)
almost all of them are edible, and the sizes vary from very small (palm of the hand size) to 6 or more feet long!
i think, like many 'common names', there is overlap (what one group calls a cuttle fish, another group might call a squid.
(i think of shrimp/prawns/crawfish... i don't think there is a real difference between shrimp and prawns-i think they are different names for the same animal. (even if both shrimp and prawns are used in an area) one man's jumbo shrimp is another man's prawn.
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The giant squid can weigh up to a ton and measure up to 60 feet in length (Architeuthis clarkei). There's another living member of cephalopods: the nautilus, which wears its shell externally. One interesting trait of squids/octopodes is how rapidly and well they can change their coloring.
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i think of shrimp/prawns/crawfish... i don't think there is a real difference between shrimp and prawns-i think they are different names for the same animal.
I remember reading somewhere that in the UK there is a legal boundary between shrimp and prawns. If there are more than a certain no. of beasties to the pound, ounce or whatever, they are shrimps, below that they are prawns.
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