1. Different species: Squid belongs to the family Sepietae, while cuttlefish belongs to the family Sepietae, so they are also called cuttlefish. The varieties of the two are fundamentally different.
2, different shapes: cuttlefish is wide in size, oval in tail, and round in overall appearance. Squid's body is slender, and its tail is conical, so it looks slender as a whole.
3, different hand feeling: cuttlefish has bones in its body, so it feels hard. Squid are mollusks. They have no bones in their bodies and feel soft.
4, different characteristics: cuttlefish and squid have ink sacs in their bodies, but cuttlefish has strong ink-jet ability. Although squid can also jet ink, its ink-jet ability will be much worse.
2. Difference between squid and octopus1. Different brachiopods: Squid has 10 brachiopods, 2 of which are relatively short and 8 are relatively long. Octopus has only eight brachiopods, so it is also called octopus.
2, different shapes: octopus looks like a ball as a whole, squid has a long cone-shaped body, and its tail has rhombic fleshy fins.
3, different colors: The color of squid is purple, deep purple or partial pink. The skin color of octopus is light yellowish brown. There is a big difference in color between the two.