Octopoda

octopuses

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 11718ITIS 82589key worms:11718

2026-08-05: itis_id 82589 via WoRMS external link

An octopus is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.W CalCOFI holds 914 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1984 and 2023, across 10 taxa under it.R

914
observations: 914
records: 1984–2023
years: 1
datasets: 5
species under it

Photo · NOAA Okeanos Explorer, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:11718")

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 1 taxon

sO Incirrata914

Lineage 6 ranks · Biota to Octopodiformes

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda · source
Photo · NOAA Okeanos Explorer, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Octopus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372947602

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

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 ↗