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Pyroteuthis

WoRMS 138423ITIS 555803GBIF 2289900key worms:138423
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2026-08-05: itis_id 555803 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pyroteuthis margaritifera

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 Pyroteuthis
Photo · Carl Chun , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Pyroteuthis is a genus of squid in the family Pyroteuthidae. It is differentiated from the genus Pterygioteuthis by size, head shape and behaviour.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
3
sampling events
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
1
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 3 obs · 3 events · 2012–2016 · invert
    name used: Pyroteuthis · code 9580

Under it · 1 taxon

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:138423%22