Argonautidae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82680 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11785")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:11785'").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
- G Argonauta Argonauts101
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Argonautoidea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Dalila Destanovic · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Argonauta argo · source
- Photo · mbartick · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Argonautidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354821456
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗