Onychoteuthidae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82436 via WoRMS external link
The hooked squid, family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species, in six or seven genera. They range in mature mantle length from 7 cm (2.8 in) to a suggested length of 2 m for the largest member, Onykia robusta.W CalCOFI holds 242 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 5 taxa under it.R
- 242
- observations
- 242
- records
- 2
- sampling events
- 2008–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
- invert
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Onychoteuthidae · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11742")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:11742'").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 · Onychoteuthis most observed
- G Onychoteuthis228
- G Onykia Hooked squids12
Life stages invert
- Ichthyoplankton invert
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 8 ranks · Biota to Oegopsida incertae sedis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis · source
- Photo · cecen · CC BY-NC 4.0 · gbif · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Hooked squid” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371980176
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 ↗