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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Histioteuthidae

WoRMS 11749ITIS 82484key worms:11749
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82484 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 Histioteuthidae
Photo · Emily Simpson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Histioteuthidae is a family of Oegopsid squid. The family was previously considered to be monotypic but the World Register of Marine Species assigns two genera to this family.W CalCOFI holds 80 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R

80
observations
80
records
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11749")