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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Leachia

WoRMS 137850ITIS 555778key worms:137850
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2026-08-05: itis_id 555778 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Heliococrachia pfefferi

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).

*Subject: Squids Tag: Fish
Photo · Jules Richard · Public domain · commons

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

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:137850")