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Leachia pacifica

Pacific Leach's cranch squid

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 341815ITIS 556231GBIF 5189657key worms:341815
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556231 via WoRMS external link

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

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 72 obs72 events2008–2023invert
    name used: Leachia pacifica · code 9715

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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

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.

Life stages invert
  • Ichthyoplankton invert

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Leachia
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗