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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gonatidae

WoRMS 11743ITIS 82414GBIF 6823key worms:11743
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82414 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 Gonatidae
Photo · Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Gonatidae, also known as armhook squid, are a family of moderately sized squid. The family contains about 19 species in three genera, widely distributed and plentiful in cold boreal waters of the Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 778 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 6 taxa under it.R

778
observations
778
records
2
sampling events
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
3
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 · 2008–2010 · invert
    name used: Gonatidae · code 9615

Under it · 3 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:11743%22