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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gonatus pyros

Fiery armhook squid

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

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.

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

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 22 obs · 22 events · 2008–2016 · invert
    name used: Gonatus pyros Fiery armhook squid · code 9632

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
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