Leachia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137850ITIS 555778key worms:137850

2026-08-05: itis_id 555778 via WoRMS external link

Leachia is a genus containing eight species of glass squids. The genus was formerly divided into two subgenera: Leachia and Pyrgopsis, but is no longer.W CalCOFI holds 72 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023.R

72
observations: 72
records: 2008–2023
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Jules Richard · Public domain · commons

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:137850")

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

sp Leachia pacifica Pacific Leach's cranch squid72

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Cranchiinae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Heliococrachia pfefferi · source
Photo · Jules Richard · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Leachia” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1188035760

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

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 ↗