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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Leachia pacifica

Pacific Leach's cranch squid

WoRMS 341815ITIS 556231GBIF 5189657key worms:341815
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556231 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.

Photograph of Leachia pacifica
Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Leachia pacifica is a species of squid in the family Cranchiidae., first described by Arturo Issel in 1908. It is mainly found in the Subtropics.W CalCOFI holds 72 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert.R

72
observations
72
records
72
sampling events
2008–2023
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 72 obs · 72 events · 2008–2023 · invert
    name used: Leachia pacifica · code 9715

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:341815%22