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The Japanese flying squid, Japanese common squid or Pacific flying squid, [3] scientific name Todarodes pacificus, is a squid of the family Ommastrephidae.This animal lives in the northern Pacific Ocean, in the area surrounding Japan, along the entire coast of China up to Russia, then spreading across the Bering Strait east towards the southern coast of Alaska and Canada.
Thysanoteuthis rhombus, also known as the diamond squid, diamondback squid, or rhomboid squid, is a large species of squid from the family Thysanoteuthidae which is found worldwide, throughout tropical and subtropical waters. T. rhombus is given its name for the appearance of the fins that run the length of the mantle. They are a fast growing ...
Nototodarus gouldi, Gould's flying squid; Nototodarus hawaiiensis, Hawaiian flying squid; Nototodarus sloanii, Wellington flying squid or New Zealand arrow squid; Genus Todarodes. Todarodes angolensis, Angola flying squid; Todarodes filippovae, Antarctic flying squid; Todarodes pacificus, Japanese flying squid or Japanese common squid
Ommastrephidae is a family of squid containing three subfamilies, 11 genera, and over 20 species.They are widely distributed globally and are extensively fished for food. One species, Todarodes pacificus, comprised around half of the world's cephalopod catch annua
The egg size can range from 0.75 to 0.9 mm, and the hatchling size has a mantle length of approximately 1.0 mm. [6] Purpleback squids are among the fastest-growing squid species, as the daily increase of overall length in the dwarf and middle-sized forms is about 1.0 mm; for the giant form, it is about 3.8 mm. [6]
The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid (EN), and Pota in Peru or Jibia in Chile (ES), is a large, predatory squid living in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the only known species of the genus Dosidicus of the subfamily Ommastrephinae, family Ommastrephidae. [4]
The squid’s common name references Brandon Ryan Hannan who “helped a lot collecting and photographing this squid,” Jolly told McClatchy News in an email. Two views of a Kodama jujutsu, or ...
Sthenoteuthis is a genus of small squids, with two species, part of the subfamily Ommastrephinae within the family Ommastrephidae, the "flying squids".They are the dominant species of flying squid in the world's tropical and subtropical seas and they are commonly seen at the ocean's surface during the night.