Japetella diaphana
Diaphanous pelagic octopod
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82655 via WoRMS external link
Japetella diaphana, also known as the midwater octopus, is a species of pelagic deep-sea octopus from the subfamily Bolitaeninae in the family Amphitretidae. It inhabits the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of all three major oceans, and is known for its transparent body and bioluminescence.W CalCOFI holds 34 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2022, as invert.R
- 34
- observations
- 34
- records
- 34
- sampling events
- 2003–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- invert
- life stages
- 16 cm
- max length
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: Japetella diaphana · 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:138849")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:138849'").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 16 cm max
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Life stages invert
- Ichthyoplankton invert
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Japetella
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda · source
- Photo · Ewald Rübsamen, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Japetella diaphana” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371756677
- Length · sealifebase
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 ↗