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Leptochela

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Genus of crustaceans

Leptochela
Leptochela chacei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Pasiphaeidae
Genus: Leptochela
Stimpson, 1860
Type species
Leptochela gracilis
Stimpson, 1860

Leptochela is a genus of small, shallow-water shrimp from the family Pasiphaeidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region and the western Atlantic with an isolated species in Hawaii, they are absent from the eastern Atlantic Ocean and were absent from the eastern Pacific but specimens of a species widespread in the western Atlantic were collected from waters to the south of the tip of Baja California. Two species, Leptochela aculeocaudata and Leptochela pugnax have invaded the eastern Mediterranean from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and are thus classified as Lessepsian migrants.

Species

The genus is split into two subgenera Leptochela and Proboloura and contains 17 currently recognised extant species.

Leptochela

Proboloura

References

  1. ^ Charles Fransen (2011). "Leptochela Stimpson, 1860". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  2. ^ Vereshchaka, A.; Lunina, A.; Kulagin, D.; Olesen, J.; Corbari, L. (December 12, 2024). "Revision of the Global Fauna of Leptochela Stimpson, 1860 (Crustacea: Decapoda), Highlighting Phylogenetic Clades and a New Species". Diversity. 16 (12): 760 – via MDPI.
  3. Fenner A. Chace Jr. (1976). "Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 222.
Taxon identifiers
Leptochela
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