Scientific name: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Size: Up to 17.7 inches
Color: Metallic blue or green
Distinguishing feature: 10 tentacles (you can see 8). A large fin continues all over the mantle (which makes it looks like a cuttlefish). Translucent with blue or green metallic highlights. Speckled with white dots, very big eyes to its size.
Where did we see it: Mayotte
Scientific name: Sepioteuthis lessoniana
Size: Up to 17.7 inches
Color: Metallic blue or green
Distinguishing feature: 10 tentacles (you can see 8). A large fin continues all over the mantle (which makes it looks like a cuttlefish). Translucent with blue or green metallic highlights. Speckled with white dots, very big eyes to its size.
Where did we see it: Mayotte
This squid is present in the temperate waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Like mammals or octopuses, squids have developed advanced learning skills by watching other specimens do things they didn't know. These intelligent species, which live mainly in shoals (not school).
These predators are mainly tunas, marlins and swordfish.
Mammals have a horizontal tail.
Fishes have a vertical fin.
Some sharks can stay motionless on the sand (white tips reef sharks, nurse sharks, etc.).
These sharks don't have to swim to bring oxygen to their gills like other sharks (grey, hammerheads tc.)
The kakihona sushi (sushi wrapped in persimmon leaves) are really the best!
To eat them, you have to go to Nara!