Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Pasiphaeoidea > Family Pasiphaeidae

Leptochela Stimpson, 1860

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leptochela (Leptochela)*	Stimpson, 1860	synonym

Children

Leptochela aculeocaudata Paulson, 1875
Leptochela pugnax De Man, 1916

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ソコシラエビ属

Literature

original description	Stimpson, W. (1860). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republic Federata missa, Cadwaladore Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VIII, Crustacea Macrura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 22-47 [91-116 in separate].
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, 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. 284-292
additional source	Chace, F.A.Jr. (1976). Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 222: 1-51.
additional source	De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Leptochela Stimpson, 1860. 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:107050