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Leachia

Leachia
Leachia cyclura
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Oegopsida
Family: Cranchiidae
Subfamily: Cranchiinae
Genus: Leachia
Lesueur, 1821
Type species
Leachia cyclura
Lesueur, 1821[1]
Species
Synonyms[1]
  • Drechselia Joubin, 1931
  • Dyctydiopsis Rochebrune, 1884
  • Perothis Rathke, 1835
  • Pyrgopsis Rochebrune, 1884

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.[1]

Members of this genus live in tropical and sub-tropical waters worldwide.

  1. ^ a b c Julian Finn (2016). "Leachia Lesueur, 1821". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 26 February 2018.

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