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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Onychoteuthidae

WoRMS 11742ITIS 82436GBIF 6819key worms:11742
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82436 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 Onychoteuthidae
Photo · cecen · CC BY-NC 4.0 · gbif NC

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
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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 2 obs · 2 events · 2011–2014 · invert
    name used: Onychoteuthidae · code 9590

Under it · 2 taxa

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:11742%22