Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Oegopsida > Superfamily Cranchioidea > Family Cranchiidae > Subfamily Cranchiinae

Leachia Lesueur, 1821

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pyrgopsis*	Rochebrune, 1884	synonym

Children

Leachia atlantica (Degner, 1925)

Literature

original description	Lesueur C.A. (1821). Descriptions of several new species of cuttlefish. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 2: 86-101.
basis of record	Voss, N. A. (1980). A generic revision of the Cranchiidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Bulletin of Marine Science. 30(2): 365-412.
additional source	Evans, A. B. & Bolstad, K. S. R. (2023). Diversity of the squid genus Leachia (Oegopsida: Cranchiidae) in the Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology. 170(6): 72: 1-13.
additional source	Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Cranchiidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 148-178.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leachia Lesueur, 1821. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137850