Fastest animals
Invertebrates

Fastest animals

Section Title: Invertebrates
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Animal	Maximum recorded speed	Notes

Horsefly	145 km/h (90 mph)[unreliable source?]	The pursuit maneuver used by male Hybomitra hinei wrighti, measured by interpolation of slow-motion cinematography.

Members of Loliginidae and Ommastrephidae	36 km/h (22 mph)	Many of these species "fly" out of the water to escape danger. The Japanese flying squid can glide for 3 seconds over 30 metres.

Paratarsotomus macropalpis	~22 cm/s or 800 m/h (8.7 in/s or 0.51 mph)	0.7 mm long mite endemic to Southern California, tracked running up to 322 body lengths per second, equivalent to a human running at around 2,092 km/h (1,300 mph).

Tiger beetle	6.8 km/h (4.2 mph)	The Australian tiger beetle Cicindela eburneola, is one of the fastest running insects in the world relative to body size, which has been recorded at 6.8 km/h (4.2 mph) or 171 body lengths per second.

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The fastest organism on earth, relative to its body length, is the South Californian mite, Paratarsotomus macropalpis, which has a speed of 322 body lengths per second.

final_sentence: The fastest organism on earth, relative to its body length, is the South Californian mite, Paratarsotomus macropalpis, which has a speed of 322 body lengths per second.