Tremoctopus
blanket octopuses
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82667 via WoRMS external link
Tremoctopus is a genus of pelagic cephalopods, containing four species that occupy surface to mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans. They are commonly known as blanket octopuses, in reference to the long, transparent webs that connect the dorsal and dorsolateral arms of the adult females.W CalCOFI holds 11 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2021, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 11
- observations
- 11
- records
- 1
- sampling events
- 2002–2021
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 1
- species under it
- invert
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
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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.
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name used: Tremoctopus · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:138563")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:138563'").df()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 Tremoctopus violaceus Commom blanket octopus10
Life stages invert
- Ichthyoplankton invert
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Tremoctopodidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Tremoctopus · source
- Photo · mbartick · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Blanket octopus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1352281425
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗