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Japetella

WoRMS 137695ITIS 82654GBIF 2289227key worms:137695
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82654 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda

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 Japetella
Photo · Ewald Rübsamen, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Japetella is a genus of pelagic octopods from the subfamily Bolitaeninae in the family Amphitretidae. It contains at least one species but another two have been questionably raised with Japetella heathi being of doubtful validity, although currently accepted and Japetella taningi being classed as a nomen dubium.W CalCOFI holds 45 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2022, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R

45
observations
45
records
11
sampling events
2001–2022
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 11 obs · 11 events · 2001–2015 · invert
    name used: Japetella · code 9751

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:137695%22