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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Octopoteuthis deletron

Shabby octopus squid

WoRMS 342057ITIS 556640GBIF 2289878key worms:342057
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556640 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Taningia danae

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

Photograph of Octopoteuthis deletron
Photo · aaronbaldwin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Octopoteuthis deletron is a species of squid in the genus Octopoteuthis of the family Octopoteuthidae. They belong to the pelagic squids of order Oegopsida.W CalCOFI holds 51 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert.R

51
observations
51
records
51
sampling events
2008–2023
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 51 obs · 51 events · 2008–2023 · invert
    name used: Octopoteuthis deletron · code 9587

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:342057%22