CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem

Heteroteuthis

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 138478ITIS 205715key worms:138478
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 205715 via WoRMS external link

Heteroteuthis is a genus of deep-sea bobtail squid comprising seven species.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002.R

1
observations
1
records
2002
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Heteroteuthis
Photo · R. L. Hudson, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · 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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:138478")

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
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Heteroteuthinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Euprymna scolopes · source
  • Photo · R. L. Hudson, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Heteroteuthis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1304356386
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗