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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Amphitretidae

WoRMS 153101ITIS 82685key worms:153101
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82685 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda

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 Amphitretidae
Photo · Ewald Rübsamen, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Amphitretidae is a family of mesopelagic octopods which contains three subfamilies, formerly classified as families in their own right. It is classified in the superfamily Octopodoidea.W CalCOFI holds 45 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

45
observations
45
records
2001–2022
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:153101")