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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Argonautidae

WoRMS 11785ITIS 82680key worms:11785
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82680 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Dalila Destanovic · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Argonauta argo

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 Argonautidae
Photo · mbartick · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Argonautidae are a family of pelagic cephalopods that inhabit tropical and temperate oceans of the world. The family encompasses the modern paper nautiluses of the genus Argonauta along with several extinct genera of shelled octopods.W CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2019, across 2 taxa under it.R

101
observations
101
records
2002–2019
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:11785")