The Japanese flying squid, also called the Japanese common squid or Pacific flying squid, is a squid of the family Ommastrephidae. It lives in the northern Pacific Ocean around Japan, along the entire coast of China up to Russia, and spreads across the Bering Strait east toward the southern coast of Alaska and Canada, tending also to cluster around the central region of Vietnam.
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Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to People Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Comparison
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Child Taxon Of
Source Japanese Flying Squid (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source SeaLifeBase: Todarodes pacificus summary
Source SeaLifeBase: Todarodes pacificus summary
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Sources
1. SeaLifeBase: Todarodes pacificus summary
SeaLifeBaseHuman uses
Fisheries: commercial
Biology
Feeds on myctophids, anchovies, crustaceans, gastropod larvae, chaetognaths (Ref. 275 ).
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Japanese flying squid
system (MediaWiki batch-API article extract states it plainly)
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.
Infobox: status
LC
View the Source3. Japanese Flying Squid (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q780352 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Cephalopoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source 4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Cephalopoda
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 67993Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 67993
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