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

Leptocheliinae Lang, 1973

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Subfamily group names

*Heterotanaidinae*	Larsen & Wilson, 2002	synonym

Children

Chondrochelia Gutu, 2016
Heterotanais Sars, 1882
Leptochelia Dana, 1849
Mesotanais Dollfus, 1897

Literature

basis of record	Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016).
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	Bird, G.J., & Larsen, K. (2009). Tanaidacean phylogeny – the second step: the basal paratanaoidean families (Crustacea: Malacostraca). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny. 67 (2): 137-158.
taxonomy source	Araújo-Silva, C.L., & Larsen, K. (2012). Tanaidacea (Tanaidacea: Crustacea) from Brazil. IV. A new genus and two new species from the family Leptocheliidae. Zootaxa. 3523: 1-19.
taxonomy source	Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., & Bamber, R.N. (2012). The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 69: 1–235.
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	Bamber, R.N. (2013). A re-assessment of Konarus Bamber, 2006 and sympatric leptocheliids from Australasia, and of Pseudoleptochelia Lang (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea). Zootaxa. 3694 (1): 1-39.