Cephalopods incidentally caught with shirasu boat seine from Suruga Bay in 1988, 1990 and 1991, with the catalogue of cephalopods hitherto recorded from the bay

Census of cephalopods incidentally caught by boat seine operated along the west coast of Suruga Bay (Japan) aiming at larval anchovy and sardine (shirasu), were made during the years 1988, 1990 and 1991. The faunulae for these three years contained 10 species of decapods and 3 species of octopods, excluding 1 unidentified loliginid and 3 octopods. Either of Loligo edulis or L. japonica were the most frequent and abundant every year followed by Todarodes pacificus and then Inioteuthis japonica. Occurrences of oceanic species seem to be closely related to the behavior of the Kuroshio. All records of cephalopods hitherto reported from Suruga Bay were assembled: The catalogue lists 20 species of Sepioidea, 4 Myopsida, 31 Oegopsida, 1 Cirrata and 13 Incirrata (69 in all)