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Class · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cephalopoda

cephalopods

WoRMS 11707ITIS 82326key worms:11707
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82326 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cassinoceras

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Cephalopoda
Photo · Kai Squires · CC BY 4.0 · inat

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles modified from the primitive molluscan foot.W CalCOFI holds 27,151 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1978 and 2023, across 54 taxa under it.R

27,151
observations
50,775
records
1978–2023
years
2
datasets
26
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11707")