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Pterygioteuthis gemmata

Roundear enope squid

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 342104ITIS 556078GBIF 2289892key worms:342104
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556078 via WoRMS external link

Pterygioteuthis gemmata is a species of squid in the family Pyroteuthidae.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2017, as invert.R

8
observations
8
records
8
sampling events
2008–2017
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages
3.6 cm
max length
PRESERVED_SPECIMEN; ; ; form.->70% alc.; ; IZ number 29241; lot count 1; 2002-07-26T00:00:00Z
Photo · Daniel J. Drew · CC0 1.0 · commons

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.

  • 8 obs8 events2008–2017invert
    name used: Pterygioteuthis gemmata · code 9578

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:342104%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 3.6 cm max
Roundear enope squid3.6 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 invert
  • 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 Pterygioteuthis
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
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 ↗