Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Amphilochida > Parvorder Amphilochidira > Superfamily Leucothoidea > Family Leucothoidae

Leucothoe Leach, 1814

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leucothoe articulosa (Montagu, 1804)
Leucothoe euryonyx Walker, 1901
Leucothoe incisa Robertson, 1892
Leucothoe lilljeborgi Boeck, 1861
Leucothoe oboa Karaman, 1971
Leucothoe occulta Krapp-Schickel, 1975
Leucothoe pachycera Della Valle, 1893
Leucothoe procera Spence Bate, 1857
Leucothoe rostrata Chevreux, 1908
Leucothoe serraticarpa Della Valle, 1893
Leucothoe spinicarpa (Abildgaard, 1789)
Leucothoe spinulosa Chevreux, 1919
Leucothoe uschakovi Gurjanova, 1951
Leucothoe venetiarum Giordani Soika, 1950

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: マルハサミヨコエビ属

Literature

original description	Leach, W.E. (1813-1815). Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 [1813], 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 [1814], 9(1): pl. CCXXI [1815].
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Lincoln, R. J. (1979). British marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. British Museum (Natural History). 658 pp.
identification resource	White, K.N. (2011). A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda).Zootaxa 3078: 1–113.
identification resource	White, K.N.; Thomas, J.D. (2009). Leucothoidae. In: Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (Eds) (2009) Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa. 2260: 1-930.

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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. Leucothoe Leach, 1814. 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:101580