Octopodiformes
Octopodiformes is a superorder of the subclass Coleoidea, comprising the octopuses and the vampire squid. All living members of Octopodiformes have eight arms, either lacking the two tentacles of squid or modifying the tentacles into thin filaments.W CalCOFI holds 914 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1984 and 2023, across 10 taxa under it.R
- 914
- observations
- 914
- records
- 1984–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 5
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:325343")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:325343'").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 not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- O Octopoda octopuses914
Lineage 5 ranks · Biota to Coleoidea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Dean Schnabel · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Doryanthes munsterii · source
- Photo · tangatawhenua · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Octopodiformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368824984
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 ↗