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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bolitaeninae

WoRMS 742052key worms:742052
Silhouette · Noah Schlottman · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Octopoda

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

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

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

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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