Ocythoe

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 138273ITIS 82677key worms:138273

2026-08-05: itis_id 82677 via WoRMS external link

Ocythoe tuberculata, also known as the tuberculate pelagic octopus or football octopus, is a pelagic octopus. It is the only known species in the family Ocythoidae.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2012 and 2019.R

2
observations: 2
records: 2012–2019
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · 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:138273")

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 Ocythoe tuberculata tuberculate pelagic octopus2

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Ocythoidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda · source
Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Ocythoe” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366643057

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.

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