Leachia danae

{{Short description|Species of squid}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Barratt, I. |author2=Allcock, L. |date=2014 |title=Leachia danae |volume=2014 |page=e.T163143A976835 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T163143A976835.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| taxon = Leachia danae

| authority = (Joubin, 1931){{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559389 | title = Leachia danae (Joubin, 1931) | accessdate = 26 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}

| synonyms = Drechselia danae Joubin, 1931

}}

Leachia danae is a species of glass squid first described in 1931{{cite book | page=237 | title=Zoological Catalogue of Australia: 2. Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda | first1=K. L. | last1=Lamprell | first2=A. M. | last2=Scheltema | publisher=Csiro Publishing | year=2001 | isbn=0-643-06707-8 }} in the Eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.[https://books.google.com/books?id=p9JAAQAAIAAJ&q=Drechselia+danae+joubin+pacific Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 30, Issues 1-2 p. 371] It has since also been observed off the Mexican Pacific coast.[http://www.repositoriodigital.ipn.mx/bitstream/handle/123456789/13484/De_Silva-Davila_Roxana_2010_CICIMAR_Oceanides_3347.pdf?sequence=1 New records of Drechselia danae (Joubin, 1931)(Cephalopoda: Cranchiidae) off the Pacific coast of Mexico, Saldierna Martínez et al., CICIMAR Oceánides, 2010]