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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. [2] At a restaurant in Beijing, China
This species is known by the common name spear squid, [3] [4] or yari-ika in Japanese. Lifespan. It has a life span of about one year. [3] Description
The classification below (including 47 species) follows Vecchione et al. (2005) [3] and the Tree of Life Web Project (2010). [ 4 ] Several doubtfully distinct species have also been described; see the genus articles for these.
Loliolus is a genus of squid from the family Loliginidae from the Indo-Pacific region. The genus is divided into two subgenera Loliolus and Nipponololigo.They are small squids of less than 150 mm (5.9 in) in mantle length which have an expanded tentacular club.
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.
Sepiolina nipponensis, also known as the Japanese bobtail squid, is a bobtail squid and one of two species in the genus Sepiolina.It is found in the Western Pacific in apparently widely separated populations, the most southerly of which is in the Great Australian Bight in South Australia and Western Australia, and there are populations from the Philippines northwards to Taiwan, Fujian and ...
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]
Idiosepiidae have an Indo-west Pacific distribution, from South Africa in the west to Japan and Russia in the east. [3] They appear to be short-lived and have multiple generations per year. In temperate climates their population declines at the end of the warm season. [8] They generally live in shallow water among seagrass and mangroves.