Top Results for Cranchiidae

Helicocranchia pfefferi is a small species of cranchiid squid found in tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide. It is commonly known as the piglet squid due to its rotund, transparent body and a large siphon that protrudes from above its eyes, resembling a snout. The species possesses a light-emit...

Galiteuthis glacialis, commonly known as the Antarctic glass squid, is a deep-sea squid belonging to the family Cranchiidae. It is native to the polar waters of the Southern Ocean, where it can be found at depths reaching 2,000 meters. The species is characterized by its nearly transparent body, a f...

Teuthowenia pellucida, commonly referred to as the googly-eyed glass squid, is a deep-sea cephalopod found in the Southern Ocean and subantarctic waters. It belongs to the family Cranchiidae and is characterized by its nearly transparent body, which provides effective camouflage in the open ocean. T...

Cranchia scabra is a small, widely distributed pelagic squid belonging to the family Cranchiidae, commonly referred to as glass squids. It is found in tropical and subtropical oceans across the globe, typically inhabiting the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones. The squid is highly recognizable by it...

Galiteuthis glacialis is a species of glass squid found in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. Like other members of the family Cranchiidae, commonly called glass squids, the species possesses largely transparent body tissue in its early life stages. G. glacialis inhabits deep waters and serv...

Galiteuthis pacifica is a species of glass squid belonging to the family Cranchiidae, widely distributed in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the North Pacific Ocean. This deep-sea squid is largely transparent, a characteristic that provides camouflage in the open ocean. It achieves buoyancy...

Teuthowenia maculata is a species of glass squid belonging to the family Cranchiidae, native to the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the South Atlantic Ocean. As its name suggests, it is identifiable by the distinct spotted pigmentation visible across its otherwise highly transparent body tissu...

Taonius belone is a species of glass squid within the family Cranchiidae, inhabiting the cold, deep waters of the subarctic and temperate North Atlantic Ocean. It possesses a characteristically slender, highly transparent mantle, which aids in camouflage within its mesopelagic environment. The squid...

A bioluminescent lycoteuthid squid of the Pacific Ocean, characterized by conspicuous photophores whose brightness is captured in the genus name Photoargiteuthis.

Cranchia scabra, commonly called the rough glass squid, is a cranchiid squid found in tropical and subtropical ocean waters. Its body is largely transparent, while the skin bears distinctive tubercles that give it a rough appearance. The squid can draw seawater into its mantle cavity, increasing bod...

Liguriella podophthalma is a species of glass squid belonging to the family Cranchiidae, an oceanic squid group whose members are often translucent. It is among the squids associated with the Mediterranean region, and the genus name Liguriella reflects the Ligurian Sea where early type specimens wer...

A small sepiolid squid (family Sepiolidae) of the Mediterranean Sea, notable for reduced arm armature reflected in the species epithet 'inermis,' meaning unarmed.

Teuthowenia megalops is a species of cranchiid glass squid found in the Atlantic Ocean and associated with the mesopelagic zone, the part of the open ocean commonly called the twilight zone. Members of its family are generally adapted to life in the deep pelagic environment, and the species name meg...

Galiteuthis phyllura is a species of cranchiid glass squid found in the North Pacific Ocean. Like other glass squids, it has a largely transparent body and adaptations for open-water life, including a large coelom that stores dilute ammonium chloride and helps provide near-neutral buoyancy. The spec...

Megalocranchia maxima is a large glass squid in the family Cranchiidae. It occurs in deep mesopelagic waters of tropical and subtropical oceans around the world and is among the larger species assigned to its family. Its transparent, glass-squid body form and open-ocean habitat make it relevant to s...

Teuthowenia pellucida is a transparent glass squid of the Southern Ocean. It has photophores positioned around its eyes and a large ammonium-filled coelom, a body cavity that contributes to buoyancy in the water column. The species belongs to the family Cranchiidae and is relevant to studies of deep...

Taonius pavo is a deep-sea cranchiid glass squid found in temperate and subpolar parts of the Atlantic and other oceans. Its large eyes are adapted to dim pelagic waters, while its nearly transparent, gelatinous body reduces visibility to predators and prey. The species is also known as the peacock...

Leachia pacifica is a species of cranchiid, or glass, squid recorded from the Pacific Ocean. Its body is largely transparent, a characteristic common among glass squids that can reduce visibility in open water. The species has large eyes and occupies the mesopelagic zone, where it lives in the dimly...

Leachia cyclura is a species of glass squid in the family Cranchiidae. Marine species references place it in tropical and southern subtropical oceanic waters of the Indo-West Pacific, where it may occur from surface waters to bathypelagic depths near 2,000 metres and can reach a mantle length of rou...

Leachia dislocata is a cranchiid glass squid described by Young in 1972 and accepted as a species of the genus Leachia. Its type locality is in the eastern North Pacific off southern California, and modern distribution accounts place it in the California Current, with records extending from about 45...

Sandalops melancholicus is a glass squid in the family Cranchiidae, commonly called the sandal-eyed squid or melancholy cranch squid. It occurs in tropical and subtropical ocean waters around the world and moves through epipelagic, mesopelagic, and bathypelagic zones as it matures; adults can reach...