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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Octopodidae

Octopus

WoRMS 11782ITIS 82590GBIF 6835key worms:11782
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82590 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Leann Biancani · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hapalochlaena fasciata

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 Octopodidae
Photo · Christian Gloor · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Octopodidae are a family containing the majority of known octopus species.W CalCOFI holds 754 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1984 and 2023, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R

754
observations
754
records
647
sampling events
1984–2023
years
1
datasets
0
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 647 obs · 647 events · 1984–2023 · invert
    name used: Octopodidae Octopus · code 9760
    name used: Octopodid type C · code 9785 synonym
    name used: Octopodid type E · code 9787 synonym
    name used: Octopodid type H · code 9790 synonym
    name used: Octopodid type I · code 9791 synonym

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:11782%22