Subclass · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Coleoidea

coleoids

WoRMS 11709ITIS 82330key worms:11709

2026-08-05: itis_id 82330 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Dean Schnabel · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Trachyteuthis hastiformis

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 Coleoidea — Photo · mbartick · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 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 · 2 taxa

SO Decapodiformes49,861
SO Octopodiformes914

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11709")

Coleoidea

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

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

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