Kobi cuttlefish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
The kobi cuttlefish has a somewhat narrow mantle around its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Kobi cuttlefish
- Scientific name
- Doratosepion kobiense
- Japanese name
- ヒメコウイカ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Sepiida
- Family
- Sepiidae
- Genus
- Doratosepion
How the Kobi cuttlefish lives
It lives on sandy-mud bottoms on the upper slopes of the continental shelf.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Size
- Mantle length: about 7 cm
- Range
- From the Boso Peninsula to the South China Sea
Where the Kobi cuttlefish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ヒメコウイカ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒメコウイカChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヒメコウイカChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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