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Little Flying Squid - Todarodes pusillus
Not definitely sure of its exact species, its a Flying Squid, possibly Little Flying Squid - Todarodes pusillus based on the location of the sighting.
There are 5 known Flying Squid species :
1. Angolan Flying Squid (Todarodes angolensis) - from south eastern Atlantic Ocean
2. Antarctic Flying Squid (Todarodes filipovae) - with circumglobal distribution in the Southern Ocean south of 35°S
3. Japanese Flying Squid (Todarodes pacificus) - from Northern Pacific Ocean down to Vietnam
4. Little Flying Squid (Todarodes pusillus) - from Northern Australia to South Philippines (Mindanao)
5. European Flying Squid (Todarodes sagittatus) - from Eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
This picture was taken during a night dive off the reef, in what we called, Black Water Dive, hovering in the open ocean column with depths of 50 meters to several hundred meters.
The little flying squid is a species of squid, one of the arrow squids of the genus ''Todarodes, in the subfamily ''Todarodinae of the flying squid family Ommastrephidae. It is a small species from the waters around northern Australia and Indonesia.
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The purpose of what we call now, Black Water Dive is to do a late night dive at an area where it is of deep waters, with the hope that critters from the deep water will come to the shallows at night to feed. Posted 7 years ago