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Histioteuthis heteropsis

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 341868ITIS 82499GBIF 2290654key worms:341868
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82499 via WoRMS external link

Histioteuthis heteropsis, known as the strawberry squid, is a species of small cock-eyed squid. The scientific nomenclature of these squid stems from their set of differently sized eyes, one being small and blue and the other being large and yellow.W CalCOFI holds 76 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2009 and 2023, as invert.R

76
observations
76
records
76
sampling events
2009–2023
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages
Photograph of Histioteuthis heteropsis
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

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.

  • 76 obs76 events2009–2023invert
    name used: Histioteuthis heteropsis · code 9641

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:341868%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 Histioteuthis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis · source
  • Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Histioteuthis heteropsis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369287681
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 ↗