Superorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Decapodiformes

WoRMS 325342key worms:325342

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Euprymna scolopes

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 Decapodiformes — Photo · Christian Gloor · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Decapodiformes is a superorder of Cephalopoda comprising all cephalopod species with ten limbs, specifically eight short arms and two long tentacles.W CalCOFI holds 26,237 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1978 and 2023, across 44 taxa under it.R

26,237
observations: 49,861
records: 1978–2023
years: 2
datasets: 21
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 · 5 taxa

O Myopsida43,352
O Oegopsida3,366
O Teuthida squids3,132
O Sepiolida10
O Bathyteuthida1

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:325342")

Decapodiformes

Observed in

Under it · 5 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.