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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pyroteuthidae

WoRMS 23109ITIS 555715GBIF 6817key worms:23109
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2026-08-05: itis_id 555715 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pyroteuthis margaritifera

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 Pyroteuthidae
Photo · Brian Urbano Alonso · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Pyroteuthidae is a family of squids. The family comprises two genera.W CalCOFI holds 257 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 6 taxa under it.R

257
observations
257
records
188
sampling events
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
3
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 188 obs · 188 events · 2008–2023 · invert
    name used: Pyroteuthidae · code 9576

Under it · 2 taxa

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:23109%22