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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Galiteuthis pacifica

WoRMS 341806ITIS 556426GBIF 2289995key worms:341806
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556426 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.

Zoology Accessions Register: Mollusca: 1938 - 1955: page 46
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Galiteuthis pacifica is a little known species of glass squid from the family Cranchiidae. It has never been fully described, despite having a wide distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2016, as invert.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
2008–2016
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 · 2008–2016 · invert
    name used: Galiteuthis pacifica · code 9726

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:341806%22