Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Leptopontiidae > Subfamily Arenopontiinae > Genus Neoleptastacus

Neoleptastacus acanthus Chappuis, 1954

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Neoleptastacus*	Nicholls, 1945	accepted genus name
*Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus)*	Nicholls, 1945	synonym
*Pararenopontia*	Bodiou & Colomines, 1986	synonym

Species group names

*Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus) acantha*	Chappuis, 1954	synonym
*Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus) acantha acantha*	Chappuis, 1954	synonym
*Arenopontia acantha*	Chappuis, 1954	synonym; alternate representation

Literature

original description	Chappuis, P.A. (1954). Harpacticides psammiques récoltés par Cl. Delamare Deboutteville en Méditerranée. [Psammic harpacticides collected by Cl. Delamare Deboutteville in the Mediterranean. Vie et Milieu. 4(2):254-276, figs. 1-71.
additional source	Sak, S., S. Karaytuğ & R. Huys. (2024). Review of Neoleptastacus Nicholls, 1945 (Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae), including an updated key to species and proposal of Phreatipontia gen. nov. Zootaxa. 5525(1):1-66. Oct 2024.
new combination reference	Sak, S., R. Huys & S. Karaytug. (2008). Disentangling the subgeneric division of Arenopontia Kunz, 1937: resurrection of Psammoleptastacus Pennak, 1942, re-examination of Neoleptastacus spinicaudatus Nicholls, 1945, and proposal of two new genera and a new generic classification (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152(3):409-458.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Neoleptastacus acanthus Chappuis, 1954. 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:363961