Japanese flying squid
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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. They tend to cluster around the central region of Vietnam.
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Japanese flying squid | |
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Todarodes pacificus (dorsal view) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Oegopsida |
Family: | Ommastrephidae |
Genus: | Todarodes |
Species: | T. pacificus |
Binomial name | |
Todarodes pacificus (Steenstrup, 1880)[2] | |
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