English: Todarodes pacificus (common squid)
日本語: スルメイカ (Todarodes pacificus) 北海道産
Date 27 October 2008
Author https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Almandine
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Todarodes_pacificus_ruler.jpg

The Japanese flying squid, Japanese common squid or Pacific flying squid (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.
Order: Teuthida
Family: Ommastrephidae
Genus: Todarodes
Species: Todarodes pacificus (Steenstrup, 1880)
Synonyms:
Ommastrephes pacificus Steenstrup, 1880
Ommastrephes sloani pacificus Sasaki, 1929
Todarodes sloanei pacificus (Steenstrup, 1880)