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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Tremoctopus

blanket octopuses

WoRMS 138563ITIS 82667GBIF 10175232key worms:138563
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82667 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Tremoctopus

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 Tremoctopus
Photo · mbartick · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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
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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 1 obs · 1 events · 2020 · invert
    name used: Tremoctopus · code 9801

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:138563%22