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Superorder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Octopodiformes

WoRMS 325343key worms:325343
Silhouette · Dean Schnabel · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Doryanthes munsterii

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 Octopodiformes
Photo · tangatawhenua · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 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:325343")