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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chiroteuthidae

WoRMS 11767ITIS 82547GBIF 3435key worms:11767
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82547 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 Chiroteuthidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The Chiroteuthidae are a family of deep-sea squid, generally small to medium in size, rather soft and gelatinous, and slow moving. They are found in most temperate and tropical oceans, but are known primarily from the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Indo-Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 331 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 3 taxa under it.R

331
observations
331
records
1
sampling events
2008–2023
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2010 · invert
    name used: Chiroteuthidae · code 9679

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:11767%22