Broadclub cuttlefish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Broadclub cuttlefish are often eaten in the Ryukyu Islands.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Broadclub cuttlefish
- Scientific name
- Ascarosepion latimanus
- Japanese name
- コブシメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Sepiida
- Family
- Sepiidae
- Genus
- Ascarosepion
Basic data
- Range
- From southern Kyushu to the tropical western Pacific and Indian Ocean
Where the Broadclub 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
- コブシメ
- 简体中文
- 白斑乌贼
- 繁體中文
- 白斑烏賊
- Français
- Seiche à grandes mains
- Deutsch
- Breitarm-Sepia
- Italiano
- Seppia gigante del reef
- Tiếng Việt
- Sepia latimanus
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 — コブシメChecked: 2026-11-04
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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