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

Cranchia Leach, 1817

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cranchia scabra Leach, 1817

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Japanese: サメハダホウズキイカ属

Literature

original description	Leach W.E. (1817). Synopsis of the orders, families and genera of the class Cephalopoda. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. 3(30):137-141.
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	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.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cranchia Leach, 1817. 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:181385