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

Leptocheliidae Lang, 1973

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Konariinae Bamber, 2013
Leptocheliidae incertae sedis
Leptocheliinae Lang, 1973

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: レプトケリア科

Literature

original description	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.
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	Larsen, K. (2003). The tanaidacean fauna (Peracarida) from a deep-sea cold-seep in the Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 23 (4): 777-794.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M. (1996). Tanaidaceans (Crustacea, Peracarida) from Brazil, with description of new taxa and systematical remarks on some families. Travaux du Muséum National d´Histoire naturelle “Grigore Antipa”. 36: 23-133.
taxonomy source	Bamber, R. N. (2006). Shallow water tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Zootaxa. 1108: 1-21.
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	Bird, G.J. (2011). Paratanaoidean tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from littoral and shallow sublittoral habitats in New Zealand, with descriptions of three new genera and seven new species. Zootaxa. 2891: 1-62.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M. (2011). A new genus and two new species of leptocheliids from the marine shallow waters of Indonesia (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha). Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 54 (1), 43–61.
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	Bamber, R. N. (2008). Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. In: Davie, P.J.F., & J.A. Phillips (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 54 (1): 143-217.
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1986). Crustacea Tanaidacea of the Antarctic and the Subantarctic. 1. On material collected at Tierra del Fuego, Isla de los Estados, and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Pages 1-180, In: Korniker, L.S. (ed.), Biology of the Antarctic Seas 18. Volume 45 in the Antarctic Research Series. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M.; Iliffe, T. M. (2001). Grallatotanais antipai, a new genus and species of the family Leptocheliidae Lang, 1963 from a marine cave in the Bahamas (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Tanaidomorpha). Travaux du Muséum d´Histoire naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 43: 93-100.
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1976). Zum natürlichen System der Dikonophora Lang (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Zeitschrift für Zoologischer Systematik und Evolutionsforschung. 14: 177-198.
identification resource	Larsen, K. (2005). Deep-Sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Brill, Leiden.
identification resource	Larsen, K., & Shimomura, M. (2007). Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. II. Tanaidomorpha from the East China Sea, the West Pacific Ocean, and the Nansei Islands. Zootaxa. 1464: 1-43.