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Food & Dairy | | Japanese term or phrase: 紋甲いか | Hello. 2 questions:
1. How do you read this in romaji? _?__ ika
2. What would 紋甲 be translated as?
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| | kisslip cuttlefish / common cuttlefish | Explanation:
モンゴウイカ
Mongoika originally and mostly refers to two subgenus of the sepia genus:
ヨーロッパイカ (Sepia officinalis Linnaeus) and カミナリイカ (Sepia (Acanthosephion) lycida), and in English they are "common cuttlefish" and "kisslip cuttlefish", respectively. (from 広辞苑, see Plate 1 and Plate 9 on the following webpage:
http://www.zen-ika.com/zukan/index.html)
For the English translations, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepia_(genus)
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Note added at 1 hr (2007-10-31 21:37:06 GMT)
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note: in the wikipedia reference (genus) is part of the web address
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11 mins confidence:   もんごういか/common cuttlefish
Explanation:
Seppia lycidas, common cuttlefish
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Note added at 12 mins (2007-10-31 20:47:01 GMT)
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The long o is listed as optional, so it could be "mongo" or "mongou", although in another reference is listed only as "mongou".
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Note added at 20 mins (2007-10-31 20:54:08 GMT)
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Also listed as "kisslip cuttlefish" in Wikipedia.
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