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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ommastrephidae

Flying squid

WoRMS 11760ITIS 82514GBIF 6820key worms:11760
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82514 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Becky Barnes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Illex illecebrosus

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 Ommastrephidae
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Ommastrephidae is a family of squid containing three subfamilies, 11 genera, and over 20 species. They are widely distributed globally and are extensively fished for food.W CalCOFI holds 36 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2019, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R

36
observations
36
records
34
sampling events
2008–2019
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 34 obs · 34 events · 2008–2019 · invert
    name used: Ommastrephidae Flying squid · code 9660

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:11760%22