see text Ascocranchia Voss, 1962 Helicocranchia is a genus of small glass squids from the family Cranchiidae, known as piglet squid.

They are characterized by possessing a very large funnel and in having a pair of small paddle-like fins which are attached to a part of the gladius which sits above the muscular mantle.

These squid undergo a slow descent starting near the surface as paralarvae moving down to lower mesopelagic depths as near-adults.

[2] The genus contains bioluminescent species.

[3] There are three species of Helicocranchia:[1] This squid-related article is a stub.