Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Polychelida > Superfamily Eryonoidea > Family Polychelidae > Subfamily Polychelinae > Genus Pentacheles

Pentacheles laevis Spence Bate, 1878

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pentacheles*	Spence Bate, 1878	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Polycheles granulatus*	Faxon, 1893	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: smooth blind lobster sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: polychèle lisse

Literature

original description	Bate, C. S. (1878). XXXII. On the Willemoesia Group of Crustacea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (series 5)2: 273–283, pl. 13.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.).
source of synonymy	Galil, B.S. (2000). Crustacea Decapoda: review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874. In: Crosnier, A. (ed.) (2000). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 21. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, A (Zoologie). 184: 285–387.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Pentacheles laevis Spence Bate, 1878. 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:382979