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none Squid have no shells, the hardest part of the body is the beak which it uses to crush its food.

-- Squid have a vestige of an ancestral shell called a "quill" or "pen" due to its shape. It is much like a cuttlebone, but chitinous and transparent. Extinct squid did have a shell, but only one. --

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