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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cranchia scabra

cockatoo squid

WoRMS 181386ITIS 82578GBIF 2290014key worms:181386
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82578 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Heliococrachia pfefferi
cockatoo squid13 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Cranchia scabra
Photo · Paul Louis Oudart, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Cranchia scabra is a species of glass squid, sometimes called the rough glass squid. It is the only species in the genus, and is fairly small.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2012 and 2015, as invert.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
2012–2015
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 5 obs · 5 events · 2012–2015 · invert
    name used: Cranchia scabra · code 9708

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:181386%22