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Order · nomen dubium · checked 2026-08-05

Teuthida

squids

nomen dubium the authority does not list this name as accepted; the datasets below still key their observations to it.

WoRMS 11716ITIS 82367key worms:11716
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82367 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis

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 Teuthida
Photo · exxpeditiongirls · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

A squid is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, and a mantle.W CalCOFI holds 3,132 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1978 and 2023, as invert.R

3,132
observations
3,132
records
3,132
sampling events
1978–2023
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 3,132 obs · 3,132 events · 1978–2023 · invert
    name used: Teuthida · code 9540

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:11716%22