Ommastrephidae
Flying squid
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82514 via WoRMS external link
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 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: Ommastrephidae Flying squid · code
9660
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:11760")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:11760'").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 1 taxon
- sF Ommastrephinae2
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 Cranchioidea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Becky Barnes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Illex illecebrosus · source
- Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Ommastrephidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354729207
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 ↗