Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Lysianassida > Parvorder Synopiidira > Superfamily Dexaminoidea

Lepechinellidae Schellenberg, 1926

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Lepechinellinae*	Schellenberg, 1926	synonym

Children

Lepechinella Stebbing, 1908
Lepechinelloides Thurston, 1980

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ガイコツヨコエビ科

Literature

original description	Schellenberg, A. (1926). Die Gammariden der Deutschen Sudpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition 1901-1903. 18(10): 235-414.
additional source	De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie. 77, suppl. 1: 1-325.
status source	Andres H.G. & Brandt A. (2001). Lepechinellid genera Paralepechinella Pirlot, 1933 and Lepechinelloides Thurston, 1980: first records from Antarctica (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, 98, pp. 77-97;11 figs.
status source	Thurston, M. H.; Horton, T. (2019). Lepechinellidae, a valid amphipod family name (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Zootaxa. 4706(4): 598-599.
identification resource	Johansen, P.-O.; Vader, W. (2015). New and little known species of Lepechinella (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lepechinellidae) and an allied new genus Lepesubchela from the North Atlantic. European Journal of Taxonomy. (127): 1–35.

Genbank

Citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Lepechinellidae Schellenberg, 1926. 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:101392