Chtenopteryx

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137785ITIS 555777key worms:137785

2026-08-05: itis_id 555777 via WoRMS external link

Chtenopteryx is a genus of small, muscular, midwater squid in the monotypic family Chtenopterygidae. Four species are presently recognized in the genus, but more are believed to exist.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2016 and 2016.R

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observations: 1
records: 2016
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Louis Joubin (1861–1935), žiadne známe obmedzenia autorskými právami no (voľné dielo) · Public domain · inat

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 inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:137785")

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

sp Chtenopteryx sicula Comb-finned squid1

Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Chtenopterygidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chtenopteryx sicula · source
Photo · Louis Joubin (1861–1935), žiadne známe obmedzenia autorskými právami no (voľné dielo) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Chtenopteryx” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1196898135

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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

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