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 > Genus Leptochelia

Leptochelia mergellinae Smith, 1906

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leptochelia*	Dana, 1849	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Pseudoleptochelia merginellae*	(Smith, 1906)	synonym

Literature

original description	Smith, G. (1906). High and low dimorphism. With an account of certain Tanaidae of the Bay of Naples. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 17 (3): 312-340.
basis of record	Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016).
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.
taxonomy source	Morales-Núñez, A.G., Heard, R.W., & Alfaro, M. (2013). A new species of Pseudoleptochelia Lang, (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea: Leptocheliidae) from the Northwest Atlantic with observations on the status of the genus. Zootaxa. 3664 (2): 259-282.