Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Allomalorhagida > Order Allomalorhagida incertae sedis > Family Pycnophyidae

Leiocanthus Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leiocanthus bretti Sánchez & Martínez, 2019
Leiocanthus lageria (Sánchez, Herranz, Benito & Pardos, 2014) Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016

Literature

original description

Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). Cladistics. 32(5): 479-505.

identification resource

Sánchez, N.; Sørensen, M. V.; Landers, S. C. (2019). Pycnophyidae (Kinorhyncha: Allomalorhagida) from the Gulf of Mexico: Fujuriphyes viserioni sp. nov. and a redescription of Leiocanthus langi (Higgins, 1964), with notes on its intraspecific variation. Marine Biodiversity. 49(4): 1857-1875.

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Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Leiocanthus Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016. 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:1433068

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Occurrence

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2023-05-30 by Birger Neuhaus

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