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Abraliopsis felis

Clawed enope squid

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 341849ITIS 82401GBIF 2290213key worms:341849
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82401 via WoRMS external link

Abraliopsis felis is a species of enoploteuthid cephalopod found in cool temperate water of the north Pacific Ocean. Female oocytes measure 1.5 mm in length.W CalCOFI holds 37,620 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1998 and 2023, as egg and invert.R

37,620
observations
83,692
records
42,525
sampling events
1998–2023
years
2
datasets
egg · invert
life stages
5 cm
max length
Photograph of Abraliopsis felis
Photo · Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 82,334 obs41,167 events1998–2022egg
    name used: Abraliopsis felis · code abraliopsis_felis
  • 1,358 obs1,358 events2008–2023invert
    name used: Abraliopsis felis · code 9561

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the CUFES Fish Eggs table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_cufes.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:341849%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 5 cm max
Clawed enope squid5 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · sealifebase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages egg · invert
  • CUFES Fish Eggs egg
  • Ichthyoplankton invert

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Abraliopsis
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
  • Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis · source
  • Photo · Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Abraliopsis felis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1245034784
  • Length · sealifebase
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 ↗