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Onykia

Hooked squids

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 138292ITIS 82443GBIF 2290144key worms:138292
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82443 via WoRMS external link

Onykia is a genus of squids in the family Onychoteuthidae. Due to similarities between the genera, several recent authors consider the genus Moroteuthis a junior synonym of Onykia.W CalCOFI holds 12 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2013 and 2021, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R

12
observations
12
records
1
sampling events
2013–2021
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
invert
life stages
Onykia sp. A (nearly mature female, 272 mm ML, taken by Anela Choy from stomach of swordfish)
Photo · Richard E. Young · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 1 obs1 events2014invert
    name used: Moroteuthis Hooked squids · code 9591 synonym id conflict
    name used: Onykia · code 9604

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:138292%22

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
Life stages invert
  • Ichthyoplankton invert

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Onychoteuthidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis · source
  • Photo · Richard E. Young · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Onykia” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1188073904
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗