It moves forward by vigorously squeezing water in its cloak and pumping it through the siphon.

It is carnivorous with a diet consisting mainly of fish, crabs, lobsters and molluscs, which it catches with the suction cups on its tentacles.

It is parasitized by Dicyema shimantoense, which infects its renal appendages.

[2] The specific name honors the Japanese zoologist Madoka Sasaki who died in 1927.

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