Octopoteuthis
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).
Octopoteuthis is a genus of squid, one of the two referred to as octopus squid, the other being Taningia, its sister genus. Both Octopoteuthis and Taningia are characterized by their lack of tentacles for the majority of their life cycle, which led to their common name.W CalCOFI holds 52 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 52
- observations
- 52
- records
- 1
- sampling events
- 2008–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 1
- species under it
- invert
- life stages
Observed ini
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.
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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.
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name used: Octopoteuthis · code
9586
Under it · 1 taxon
- sp Octopoteuthis deletron Shabby octopus squid51
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:138271")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:138271'").df()