Coleoidea
coleoids
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82330 via WoRMS external link
Coleoidea or Dibranchiata is one of the two subclasses of cephalopod molluscs containing all the various taxa popularly thought of as "soft-bodied" or "shell-less".W CalCOFI holds 45,168 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1978 and 2023, across 54 taxa under it.R
- 45,168
- observations
- 91,240
- records
- 1978–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 26
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Decapodiformes most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11709")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:11709'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Decapodiformes most observed
- SO Decapodiformes90,326
- SO Octopodiformes914
Lineage 4 ranks · Biota to Cephalopoda
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Dean Schnabel · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Trachyteuthis hastiformis · source
- Photo · mbartick · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Coleoidea” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368875686
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗