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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.
Nototodarus sloanii is a species of squid commonly known as the New Zealand arrow squid or Wellington flying squid. It is also known by its Māori name of wheketere . [ 3 ] It is a favoured prey species of a number of marine mammals and diving birds.
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 .
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 ]
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.
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
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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