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Description The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid off Tenerife in 1861.
Source (Originally): Figuier, Louis (1866) La vie et les moeurs des animaux zoophytes et mollusques par Louis Figuier, p. 467; Eng. tr. (1868) The Ocean World
(Reused by): Lee, Henry (1884) Sea Monsters Unmasked, p. 365
Author Attributed to the direction of Charles Bévalet.[1]

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