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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Octopoteuthidae

WoRMS 11741ITIS 82431GBIF 2871key worms:11741
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82431 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Taningia danae

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 Octopoteuthidae
Photo · aaronbaldwin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Octopoteuthidae are a family of squid comprising two genera. The family is characterized by tentacles which cease to grow after the paralarval stage which leads to the adult having eight arms; thus, members of this family are commonly named as octopus squids.W CalCOFI holds 56 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 3 taxa under it.R

56
observations
56
records
4
sampling events
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
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 4 obs · 4 events · 2010–2011 · invert
    name used: Octopoteuthidae · code 9585

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:11741%22