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Galiteuthis phyllura

Helmet squid

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 341807ITIS 556714GBIF 2290000key worms:341807
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556714 via WoRMS external link

Galiteuthis phyllura, also known as the cockatoo squid, is a species of glass squid, possibly the largest in the genus. In 1984, the Soviet stern-trawler Novoulyanovsk brought up the remains of a gigantic specimen of G. phyllura from a depth of 1,000–1,300 m (3,300–4,300 ft) in the Sea of Okhotsk.W CalCOFI holds 26 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2017, as invert.R

26
observations
26
records
26
sampling events
2008–2017
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages
Galiteuthis phyllura
Photo · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 26 obs26 events2008–2017invert
    name used: Galiteuthis phyllura · code 9727

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:341807%22

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.

Life stages invert
  • Ichthyoplankton invert

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Galiteuthis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Heliococrachia pfefferi · source
  • Photo · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Galiteuthis phyllura” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364197791
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗