At Deanie’s, you can enjoy squid in our Fried Calamari appetizer or our Calamari Wedge Salad. Squid is also known as calamari when used in dishes and menu items. The squid mate in large groups, and attach their egg capsules to the seabed or to seaweed. Sh e remains to clean and maintain the den until the eggs are hatched. Male octopuses use a special arm called a “hectocotylus” to fertilize the mantle cavity of the female, who then lays a string of eggs in her den. When it comes to the reproductive difference between squid and octopus, there are several distinguishing factors used in mating techniques. Octopuses eat bottom-dwelling crustaceans, while squids eat fish and s hrimp. Octopuses and squid have hard, sharp beaks, similar to a parrot’s, that help them break up food and eat. Squid catch food using their long tentacles and eat it in pieces. When hunting food, octopuses capture their prey and inject a parlysing venom before ripping it apart to consume. Octopuses live in dens or even man-made containers on the ocean floor, while squid live in the open ocean. Octopuses do not have a shell or bone in their body, while squid possess a stiff structure known as a pen, which acts like a flexible backbone. The fins on the squid’s head help it move quickly and change direction with ease when swimming through the ocean. A squid has 2 fins on the head, a mantle, a head, 8 arms and 2 tentacles that have hooks and/or suckers or sucker rings. The majority of octopus do not have fins, with the exception of a few known deepwater-dwelling octopuses.

Squid vs octopus