Wikipedia:WikiProject Cephalopods

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Welcome to WikiProject Cephalopods! This WikiProject aims to help organise our collection of entries about cephalopods.

Parentage

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Science.

WikiProject Biology

WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Marine life

WikiProject Cephalopods

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

It is worth keeping one eye on several WikiProjects that overlap with this one, including WikiProject Cetaceans, WikiProject Ecoregions, and WikiProject Palaeontology.

Participants

To join this WikiProject, edit this section and add * ~~~~ and any comments to the bottom of the following list of participants.
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• Category:WikiProject Cephalopods participants

• TheOrangeOctopus- I am extremely interested in all cephalopods, but especially octopodiformes.
• Hadal
• DanielCD - mostly into fossils/extinct forms, but like to learn and help!
• The bellman 13:04, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
• Lejean2000 - Currently working on the Ammonoidea classification. Generally interested in Cephalopods' paleobiology.
• XQ_fan - Argonauta/Nautilus
• CFLeon 06:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
• Jnpet 06:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
• Elapied 10:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
• Mgiganteus1 11:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC) - long time contributor, currently working through the cuttlefish species
• –Sidious1701_{(talk • email • todo)} 18:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC) - I've created several squid articles and GIANT SQUIDS RULE!
• Paleodude - Im into the extinct species especley ammonites, nautiloids, and belemites
• Hackfish - I like deep sea creatures!
• Iciac 02:47, 15 December 2008 (UTC) - fascinated by pre-fried calamari
• The^WikiOctopus 21:53, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
• Citron (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
• ~rezecib ^(talk) 16:40, 26 August 2010 (UTC) long-time interest in cephalopods (especially cuttlefish), no formal qualifications
• Architeuthidae (Talk | Contributions) 23:17, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Obsidi♠n Soul 03:34, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
• Quetzal1964 - I like to fill in gaps, especially where northeastern Atlantic species are involved.(talk) 17:56, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
• Malacologist2 (talk) 03:29, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
• Jake (talk) 23:31, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
• Danimations I have an interest in cephalopods, particularly those occurring in Australian waters.
• User:Nebulous Nanuqsaurus - Especially into ammonites, but interested in all cephalopods (and most molluscs).
• Nessie (talk) 18:01, 22 February 2018 (UTC) - how can you not love these guys?
• Kravk - new-ish to wikipedia! I like to make articles on lesser-know/studied species
• Squashbby (talk) 15:56, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
• Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 16:41, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
• Aven Az13 I love squid!
• Scuraball Sepidariidae are my forte.
• BernardP (talk) 07:49, 18 November 2020 (UTC) General invertebrate parataxonomist with a love of nudibranchs and other molluscs
• Martín Villarroel Pérez (talk) 15:50, 26 May 2022 (UTC-4) Marine Biology undergraduate student, very interested in octopuses and squids
• jj1691 joined 12 December 2022. I joined to do routine maintenance and create new articles.
• EBMLibrarian - I have a MS in ecology and a MLIS. Willing to help as needed.
• PhronimaStan (talk) 07:10, 23 February 2024 (UTC) - I have deep sea cephalopods as a special interest and I seem to have compiled a mental database of rare squid footage.
• SevenstxrSquid joined 18 August 2024. In my opinion, and probably yours to, squid are epiccc. I will occasionally edit articles that relate to squid (not much else).
• Pete Tillman joined 30 JUN 2025. Sorry to see some of my favorite ancient critters have an inactive group. I'll do my bit to help.
• AxonsArachnida Interested in New Zealand species.
• Jugglerball (talk) 08:50, 13 October 2025 (UTC) I love octopuses lots, I am trying to add new information from the books I own
• TristanJV (talk) 11:50, 28 January 2026 (UTC) I mostly work on cirrate octopods and have edited species pages for a few years now.

Barnstar

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Article alerts

Articles to be split

• 04 Aug 2025 – Cephalopod size (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Anthropophoca (t · c); see discussion

Popular pages

Hot articles

Criteria for inclusion

See WP:Notability.

Names and titles

See WP:Naming conventions (fauna).

Article contents

The following items are desirable for articles of all levels, although the detail will vary depending on several factors. These items do not need to be separated into distinct sections; text should flow in continuous prose so far as possible. The order this information is included is also relatively unimportant, although the order listed is generally preferred.

• Description (physical, behavioral) - what makes this (group of) critter(s) different from its close relatives? Include here evidence about cognitive capacities.
• Habitat - where does it live? how broadly does it roam? maps are good
• Cultural, Religious, Economic, etc. Importance - what impact has it had on humans? Include here use for experimental purposes that do not relate to other headings.
• Classification - how does it fit into the tree of life?

Task list and progress

1. Create article for each Family Whew!
2. Ensure all Family articles are taxonomically consistent
   1. Ensure all articles between the Order and Family rank are taxonomically consistent
   2. Ensure all articles between Family and Genus rank are taxonomically consistent
3. Create articles for all Species and for needed Genera
   1. Create links for all species articles on appropriate articles
   2. Create lists of uncreated articles to add to category pages:
      1. general cephalopod articles
      2. bobtail squid articles
      3. cuttlefish articles
      4. squid articles
      5. octopus articles

Taxonomy and references

Cephalopod taxonomy is by no means fully known or agreed upon. The following references are currently being used for this Project. See the discussion for other possibilities.

• http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/ - Cephalopod database. This seems to be the most complete enumeration of cephalopods. The classification portion was last updated in May 2001, based upon http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf which lists 786 species.
• http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Cephalopoda&contgroup=Mollusca - Tree of Life website. Fantastic descriptions of the differences between many of the cephalopod subgroups.
• http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Protostoma/Mollusca/Cephalopoda/Cephalopoda.htm#Coleoidea - quite detailed

Article assessment and quality

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Cephalopod articles by quality statistics

Article templates

• Taxobox: All articles that are about one cephalopod taxon need a taxobox (or automatic taxobox/speciesbox). This is something we have inherited from the Tree of Life WikiProject. Read more about the automatic taxobox system at WP:Automated taxobox system.
• WikiProject Assessment: Please place the following template at the top of every bivalve article's talk pages:

{{WikiProject Cephalopods|class=?|importance=?|needs-photo=?}}

This will help to direct editors to this page for guidance. More information about class and importance parameters can be found at WP:WikiProject Animals/Assessment.

• Stubs: Please mark stub articles with the appropriate template below.

{{Cephalopod-stub}}

{{squid-stub}}

{{cuttlefish-stub}}

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.