Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Corophiida > Parvorder Corophiidira > Superfamily Corophioidea > Family Corophiidae > Subfamily Corophiinae > Tribe Haplocheirini

Leptocheirus Zaddach, 1844

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ptilocheirus*	Stimpson, 1853	synonym

Children

Leptocheirus bispinosus Norman, 1908
Leptocheirus guttatus (Grube, 1864)
Leptocheirus hirsutimanus (Spence Bate & Westwood, 1862)
Leptocheirus longimanus Ledoyer, 1973
Leptocheirus mariae Karaman, 1973
Leptocheirus pectinatus (Norman, 1869)
Leptocheirus pilosus Zaddach, 1844
Leptocheirus tricristatus (Chevreux, 1887)

Literature

original description	Zaddach, E. G. (1844). Synopseos Crustaceorum Prussicorum Prodromus. [Synopsis of Prussian Crustaceans Prodromus.]. Dissertatio Zoologica, quam Scripsit et ex Auctoritate Amplissimi Phiposophorum Ordinis in Academia Albertina pro Facultate Docendi [Zoological Dissertation, which he Wrote with the Authority of the Ample Phiposophore Order in the Albertine Academy for the Faculty of Teaching] , Regiomonti: E.J. Daljowski. viii + 39 pp.
basis of record	Bellan-Santini, D.; Costello, M.J. (2001). Amphipoda. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 295-308.
additional source	Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. 463 pp.
additional source	Sexton, E. W. (1911). On the amphipod genus Leptocheirus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1911 (2): 561-594.
taxonomy source	Myers A.A. & Lowry J.K. (2003). A phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 23: 443-485.

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. Leptocheirus Zaddach, 1844. 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:101470