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Loliolus Japonica, the Japanese squid, is a species of squid from the family Loliginidae. As the name suggests, it lives around Japan , but has also been found around Vietnam and China . [ 2 ] They are pelagic , living 1–30 m (3 ft 3 in – 98 ft 5 in) down in the ocean.
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.
Todarodes is a genus of flying squid from the subfamily Todarodinae, of which it is the type genus. [1] The genus contains five species which are partially allopatric but between them their distributions encompass most of the world's oceans and seas.
A Humboldt squid that washed up on a Santa Barbara shoreline. The Humboldt squid lives at depths of 200 to 700 m (660 to 2,300 ft) in the eastern Pacific (Notably in Chile and Peru), ranging from Tierra del Fuego north to California. Recently, the squid have been appearing farther north, as far as British Columbia. [11]
Idiosepius pygmaeus, also known as the two-toned pygmy squid or tropical pygmy squid, is a species of bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific. It occurs in waters of the South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, Palau, Indonesia, Northern Mariana Islands, as well as northern and northeastern Australia. It inhabits shallow, inshore waters. [3] [4]
Tsunemi Kubodera (窪寺 恒己, Kubodera Tsunemi, born 1951 in Nakano, Tokyo [1]) is a Japanese zoologist with the National Museum of Nature and Science.On September 30, 2004, Kubodera and his team became the first people to photograph a live giant squid in its natural habitat. [2]
This squid is caught for food off the coast of Japan. [9] It lays its eggs on the underside of submerged objects. In order to increase catches, artificial substrates have been installed along the coast of Japan to provide more egg-laying sites. [3] This species is important in biological research. Its mitochondrial genome has been sequenced. [10]
The giant squid is widespread, occurring in all of the world's oceans. It is usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, the northern British Isles, Spain and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New ...