FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

Loliginidae 773
Nipponololigo sumatrensis (Orbigny, 1835)
Frequent synonyms / misidentifications: Loligo kobiensis Hoyle, 1885;
L. rhomboidalis Burgess, 1967;L. yokoyae Ishikawa, 1926 / Nipponololigo
uyii Wakiya and Ishikawa, 1921.
FAO names: En - Kobi squid; Fr - Calmar kobi; Sp - Calamar kobí.
Diagnostic characters: Mantle short, slender; fins rhomboidal with
round lateral angles, length approximately 65% of mantle length. Tentacular
clubs expanded, lanceolate; club suckers in 4 rows, 6to8medial
manus suckers up to 4 to 5 times the diameter of lateral suckers and
with smooth sucker rings (occasionally with low serrations distally);
other larger tentacular suckers with 6 to 15 sharp teeth. Arm sucker rings
with 5 to 10 low broad squared teeth, left and right ventral arms (IV)
modified in males; beyond the first 3 rows of normal suckers, sucker
stalks of the left arm modified as
low stump-like papillae in the dorsal
column and broad thick palisade-like
papillae in the ventral
column, reducing in size distally;
right arm IV with 3 or 4 rows of
much enlarged suckers proxi-
mally.
Size: Maximum dorsal mantle length
100 mm, commonly to 50 mm mantle
length.
Habitat, biology, and fisheries:
Found in coastal waters, common in
upper 10 m of the water column.
Abundant in Gulf of Thailand trawl
and light-luring net catches.
Distribution: Southeast Asian
coastal waters to central Japan.
tentacular club
sucker ring
arm III sucker ring
tentacular
club
(after Natsukari, 1984)
ventral view