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Author's note: Some of the following animals being exclusively indigenous to or only eaten in Japan, no English names exist for them! I shall do my best to find their Latin names!

Hitokuchidako=Iidako: Octopus variety
Iidako=Hitokuchidako: Octopus variety
Ika: Cuttlefish or Squid (see picture)
Cuttlefish/Squid varieties:     Akaika
                                           Aoriika=Bashoika=Mizuika=Kutsuika=
Moika=Shiroika (see picture)
                                           Bashoika=Aoriika=Mizuika=Kutsuika=
Moika=Shiroika (see picture)
                                           Beka=Beika
                                           Beika=Beka
                                           Hariika=Sumiika=Koika (Common cuttlefish)
                                  (see picture)
                                           Hotaruika (see picture)
                                           Kaminariika (see picture)
                                           Kensakiika
                                           Kobushime=Kubushime
                                           Koika=Sumiika=Hariika (Common cuttlefish)
                                  (see picture)
                                           (see picture) (see picture)
                                           Kutsuika=Bashoika=Mizuika=Aoriika=
Moika=Shiroika (see picture)
                                           Mimidago=Mimiika
                                           Mimiika=Mimidago
                                           Mizuika=Aoriika=Bashoika=Kutsuika=
Moika=Shiroika (see picture)
                                           Nihotaruika
                                           Sasaika=Yariika=Sayanaga=Shakuhachi=Tenashi=
Teppou=Tsutsuika (Arrow Squid)(see picture)(see picture)
                                           Sayanaga=Yariika=Sasaika=Shakuhachi=Tenashi=
Teppou=Tsutsuika(Arrow Squid) (see picture)(see picture)
                                           Shakuhachi=Yariika=Sasaika=Sayanaga=Tenashi=
Teppou=Tsutsuika(Arrow Squid) (see picture)(see picture)
                                           Shindouika
                                           Shiroika=Bashoika=Mizuika=Kutsuika=
Moika=Aoriika (see picture)
                                           Sumiika=Koika=Hariika (Common Cuttlefish)
                                  (see picture)
                                           Surumeika (Japanese Common squid, Short-finned Squid) (see picture)
                                           Tenashi=Yariika=Sasaika=Sayanaga=Shakuhachi=
Teppou=Tsutsuika(Arrow Squid) (see picture)(see picture)
                                           Tenashi=Yariika=Sasaika=Sayanaga=Shakuhachi=
Teppou=Tsutsuika(Arrow Squid) (see picture)(see picture)
                                           Teppou=Yariika=Sasaika=Sayanaga=Shakuhachi=
Tenashi=Tsutsuika(Arrow Squid) (see picture)(seepicture)
                                           Tsutsuika=Teppou=Yariika=Sasaika=Sayanaga=
Shakuhachi=Tenashi(Arrow Squid)(see picture)(seepicture)
                                           Yariika=Sasaika=Sayanaga=Shakuhachi=
Teppou=Tenashi (Arrow Squid)(see picture)(see picture)
Cuttlefish/Squid related ingredients: Geso (Tentacles)
                                                      Ikasumi (Cuttlefish ink)
                                                      Akaika no Mimi ("Red Squid flaps)
Cuttlefish/Squid related sushi: "Korikori" (Nickame for Cuttlefish/squid
                                                 sushi)
                                                 "Ika no Huryuzume"
                                                 "Ika no Miso tsuke"
                                                 "Ikasoomen" (Cuttlefish/squid thinly cut
                                                 like "soomen" noodles)
                                                 "Shiraume" (Raw cuttlefish in Japanese
                                                 pickled plum meat)
                                                 "Ika-Mentaiko-Ume Maki" (Cuttlefish+Spiced
                                                 Cod Roe+Pickled plum meat roll)
                                                 (see picture)

Katsudago: Octopus variey
Madako: Octopus variey (see picture)
Mizudako: Octopus variey
Nidako: Octopus variey
Tako: Octopus (see picture)
Octopus varieties:   Hitokuchidako=Iidako
                              Iidako=Hitokuchidako
                              Katsudago
                              Madako (see picture)
                              Mizudako
                              Nidako

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