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Squid Dissection

The document provides instructions for dissecting a squid and observing its external and internal anatomy. Some of the key external features it identifies are the water jet, tentacles, arms, eyes, mantle, and fins. Internally, it identifies structures like the ink sac, esophagus, stomach, gills, gill heart, gonad, and pen. The dissection instructions have students locate and label these various external and internal anatomical features.

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Squid Dissection

The document provides instructions for dissecting a squid and observing its external and internal anatomy. Some of the key external features it identifies are the water jet, tentacles, arms, eyes, mantle, and fins. Internally, it identifies structures like the ink sac, esophagus, stomach, gills, gill heart, gonad, and pen. The dissection instructions have students locate and label these various external and internal anatomical features.

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Name:____________________________________________

Squid Dissection
External Anatomy: Find each of the parts, check the box to indicate that you found it.
1.  Locate the water jet.  The water jet is found on the ventral side of the squid.  
2.  The tentacles (long) and arms (short) are attached to the head of the squid.  
3.  Find the two large eyes on the side of the head.
4.  Locate the body, which is covered by the mantle, and locate the two fins.
5. Each arm has sucker disks, count the number of sucker discs on one arm: ______

Sketch the external view of the squid; label all the parts that are underlined above.   

 
 
 
 
 
 

Finding the Jaw


Open up the arms and remove any that are in your way. Deep in the middle of the arms is the mouth and a
beak-like jaw. Use forceps to remove the jaw (beak) and lay it table so that you can draw it below.

Analysis
1.  How many arms does the squid have?  _____  How many tentacles? ______
2.  What is the function of the arms and tentacles? ______________________
3.  What is the function of the water jet? ____________________________
4. Name two features that are adaptations for the squid’s predatory life. _________________________
5.  Name two traits that the squid shares with other mollusks. ____________________________
6. To what kingdom does a squid belong? __________________ What phylum? ________________
What class? _________________________________
7. Name one other organisms in the same CLASS ________________________________________
Internal Anatomy of the Squid
Procedure:  Turn the squid ventral side up.  Pull the mantle up with the scissors
where the water jet is, it should be loose and easy to pull up.  Use scissors to cut
from the water jet to the fins.  Open the mantle to expose the structures inside.

1.  Find the ink sac, this is a small dark sac near the water jet. Remove the ink sac
and use your dissecting needle to break the pouch. Write your initials on this
paper in squid ink or just smudge the paper.
2.  Find the esophagus, this is best found by looking into the mouth and seeing where it leads. The muscular
mass that surrounds the beak can be pulled up (and out) to show the tube that is the esophagus.
3.  To find the stomach, follow the esophagus toward the posterior.
4.  The anus empties into the water jet, use scissors to cut the water jet down the center so you can see the
small opening of the anus.
4.  Locate the gills, these are feathery structures that may be hidden under other things, there are two of
them.
5.  Follow the gills toward the interior to find an enlarged structure at their base: this is the gill heart.
6.  All the way toward the fin is a whitish or yellowish structure: this is the gonad.  The male gonad is generally
white, the female gonad is usually more yellow to clear. Is your squid male or female? _____________
7.  The hard-shell-like structure that lies along the backside of the squid is the pen. See if you can remove the
pen in one piece. The pen serves to stabilize the squid while it swims (like our backbone).

Observations and Analysis _ Use the descriptions above to label the squid. 
1.  How many gills does the squid have? ___________
2.  Where does the ink sac empty into? ______________
What is its function? _______________________

3.  What is the function of the pen?

4.  Where do wastes exit the squid?  (be specific)

  Word Bank
  Stomach Ink sac
Esophagus Gill
Heart Gonad
Anus Pen

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