Talk:Gezora

Note about Gezora being called a "squid" in Japanese

Gezora is consistently referred to as a カミナリイカ (雷烏賊 kaminari ika), which refers to the species Sepia lycidas, or kisslip cuttlefish. Taxonomically, according to Wikipedia, squids are ten-legged cephalopods that comprise the orders of Myopsida and Oegopsida. Gezora's species' genus Sepia is part of the order Sepiida, which is where cuttlefish are. Sepiida is a subset of Decapodiformes, which are ten-legged cephalopods which includes squids. So, Gezora is technically not a "squid" taxonomically, though it seems that [at least in Japan? Maybe in the English language as well] the term "squid" is paraphyletic... essentially, what that means, is that "squid" MAY be used to arbitrarily refer to any cephalopod with ten legs (some animals which technically aren't squids have common names that refer to them as squids, such as the bobtail squid, which isn't actually a squid and is on the same degree of separation as cuttlefish). It's like how the word "reptile" (which bears no actual taxonomic significance) excludes mammals and birds, even though they are descended from the same common ancestor as every other reptile from lizards to dinosaurs to turtles.

TL;DR: Gezora is not taxonomically a "squid" (part of the orders Myopsida or Oegopsida), but it seems, at least in Japanese, the term "squid" can generally be used to refer to cephalopods with ten limbs.