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Galiteuthis

WoRMS 137848ITIS 205734GBIF 2289994key worms:137848
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2026-08-05: itis_id 205734 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Heliococrachia pfefferi

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

Galiteuthis is a genus of glass squids from the family Cranchiidae and the subfamily Taoniinae. Squids in the genus Galiteuthis are large squids with mantle lengths measuring up to 66 cm (26 in), although it has been suggested that mantle length could reach as much as 2.7 m.W CalCOFI holds 127 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 3 taxa under it.R

127
observations
127
records
96
sampling events
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
2
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 96 obs · 96 events · 2008–2023 · invert
    name used: Galiteuthis · code 9725

Under it · 2 taxa

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:137848%22