Bolitaeninae

Subfamilyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 742052key worms:742052

The Bolitaeninae are a subfamily, in the family Amphitretidae, of small, common pelagic octopuses found in all tropical and temperate oceans of the world. The taxonomy of this taxon is not entirely certain.W CalCOFI holds 45 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

45
observations: 45
records: 2001–2022
years: 1
datasets: 1
species under it

Photo · Ewald Rübsamen, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:742052")

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 (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

G Japetella45

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Amphitretidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda · source
Photo · Ewald Rübsamen, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Bolitaeninae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354641046

Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

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

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