Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Tanaidacea > Suborder Tanaidomorpha > Superfamily Paratanaoidea > Family Leptocheliidae > Subfamily Leptocheliinae

Leptochelia Dana, 1849

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leptochelia inermis Dollfus, 1898
Leptochelia mercantilis Smith, 1906
Leptochelia mergellinae Smith, 1906

Literature

original description	Dana, J.D. (1849). Conspectus Crustaceorum quæ in orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e classe Reipublicæ Fœderatæ Duce, lexit et descripsit. [An observation of the Crustacea which in circumnavigation of the globe, Charles Wilkes of the Navy of the Federal Republic, read and described]. The American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series. 8(23): 276-285, 424-428.
basis of record	Bird, G.J. (2001). Tanaidacea. In: Costello, M.J., C.S. Emblow, & R. White (eds.), European Register of Marine Species. A Check-List of the Marine Species in Europe and a Bibliography of Guides to Their Identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 310-315.
additional source	Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016).
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1976). Zum natürlichen System der Dikonophora Lang (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Zeitschrift für Zoologischer Systematik und Evolutionsforschung. 14: 177-198.
taxonomy source	Lang, K. (1973). Taxonomische und phylogenetische Untersuchungen über die Tanaidaceen (Crustacea). 8. Die Gattungen Leptochelia Dana, Paratanais Dana, Heterotanais G.O. Sars und Nototanais Richardson. Dazu einige Bemerkungen über die Monokonophora und ein Nachtrag. Zoologica Scripta. 2: 197-229.
taxonomy source	Larsen, K., & Wilson, G.D.F. (2002). Tanaidacean phylogeny, the first step: the superfamily Paratanaidoidea. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 40 (4): 205-222.
taxonomy source	Lang, K. (1949). Contribution to the systematics and synonymics of the Tanaidacea. Arkiv för Zoologie. Series 1, 42 (18): 1-14.
taxonomy source	Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia. 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.].
ecology source	Kakui, K. (2016). Descriptions of two new species of Rhizorhina Hansen, 1892 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Nicothoidae) parasitic on tanaidacean crustaceans, with a note on their phylogenetic position. Systematic Parasitology. 93(1): 57-68.