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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Argonauta argo

Greater argonaut

WoRMS 138803ITIS 82683GBIF 5189614key worms:138803
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82683 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Dalila Destanovic · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Argonauta argo

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.

Photograph of Argonauta argo
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Argonauta argo, also known as the greater argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus belonging to the genus Argonauta.W CalCOFI holds 49 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2019, as invert.R

49
observations
49
records
49
sampling events
2002–2019
years
1
datasets
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 49 obs · 49 events · 2002–2019 · invert
    name used: Argonauta argo Greater argonaut · code 9811

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:138803%22