Cranchiidae
glass squids
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82575 via WoRMS external link
The family Cranchiidae comprises the approximately 60 species of glass squid, also known as cockatoo squid, bathyscaphoid squid, cranch squid, or simply cranchiids. The common name "glass squid" derives from the transparent bodies of most species.W CalCOFI holds 224 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 8 taxa under it.R
- 224
- observations
- 224
- records
- 15
- sampling events
- 2008–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 4
- species under it
- invert
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
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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.
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name used: Cranchiidae · code
9705
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:11774")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:11774'").df()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 2 taxa · Taoniinae most observed
- sF Taoniinae131
- sF Cranchiinae78
Life stages invert
- Ichthyoplankton invert
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 8 ranks · Biota to Cranchioidea
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Heliococrachia pfefferi · source
- Photo · Paul Louis Oudart, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cranchiidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355113430
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗