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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis

WoRMS 342189ITIS 556001GBIF 5189587key worms:342189
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556001 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Euprymna scolopes
Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis3 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · sealifebase

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis dorsal view Source=The Cephalopoda of the Hawaiian Islands Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984
Photo · R. L. Hudson · Public domain · commons

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis is a species of bobtail squid native to the central and western Pacific Ocean. It occurs in waters off Hawaii, Bonin, the Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, and the Great Australian Bight.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as invert.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2002
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2002 · invert
    name used: Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis · code 9535

How big is it
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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.

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:342189%22