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Gonatus pyros

Fiery armhook squid

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 341861ITIS 82423GBIF 2290063key worms:341861
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82423 via WoRMS external link

Gonatus pyros, the fiery gonate squid, or fiery armhook squid, is a species of squid within the family Gonatidae. The distribution of the species is in the central and eastern North Pacific from the Aleutian Islands to Baja California, where it lives at depths of 563–667 m (1,850–2,190 ft) in oceanic environments.W CalCOFI holds 22 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2016, as invert.R

22
observations
22
records
22
sampling events
2008–2016
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages
Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis

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.

  • 22 obs22 events2008–2016invert
    name used: Gonatus pyros Fiery armhook squid · code 9632

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:341861%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 10 ranks · Biota to Gonatus
Credits silhouette · text
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 ↗