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Argonauta

Argonauts

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137676ITIS 82681GBIF 2289744key worms:137676
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82681 via WoRMS external link

The argonauts are a group of pelagic octopuses. They are also called paper nautili, referring to the paper-thin eggcase that females secrete; however, as octopuses, they are only distant relatives of true nautili.W CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2019, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R

101
observations
101
records
52
sampling events
2002–2019
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
invert
life stages
Photograph of Argonauta
Photo · Bernd Hofmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 52 obs52 events2003–2006invert
    name used: Argonauta Argonauts · code 9810

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:137676%22

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
Life stages invert
  • Ichthyoplankton invert

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Argonautidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗