Common name: Indian squid

Japanese name: Ajia jindoika (亜細亜神頭烏賊)

Scientific name: Uroteuthis duvaucelii (dOrbigny, 1835)

Nigiri sushi detail: Indian squid (Ajia jindoika) Nigiri sushi

Characteristics:

Indian Squid (Ajia jindoika) is an Indo-West Pacific species of squid with a wide range throughout the Indian Ocean to Malaysia and the South China Sea and is also present in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea. This squid was also once used in a conveyor belt sushi restaurant.