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Leucothoe incisa

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Species of crustacean

Leucothoe incisa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Leucothoidae
Genus: Leucothoe
Species: L. incisa
Binomial name
Leucothoe incisa
Robertson, 1892 

Leucothoe incisa is an amphipod in the family Leucothoidae. It grows up to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long, and is whitish in colour, but a yellowish green along the back, with intensely red eyes. It lives at depths of up to 60 metres (200 ft) along the Atlantic coast of Europe from the Mediterranean Sea to Scotland, and in the North Sea. It is part of group of sibling species, together with Leucothoe lilljeborgi and Leucothoe occulta.

References

  1. "Leucothoe incisa". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  2. ^ M. J. de Kluijver & S. S. Ingalsuo. "Leucothoe incisa". Macrobenthos of the North Sea – Crustacea. Universiteit van Amsterdam. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
  3. M. Costello & D. Bellan-Santini (December 21, 2004). "Leucothoe incisa Robertson, 1892". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
  4. A. A. Myers & M. J. Costello (1986). "The amphipod sibling pair Leucothoe lilljeborgi and L. incisa in British and Irish waters". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 66: 75–82. doi:10.1017/S0025315400039655.
Taxon identifiers
Leucothoe incisa


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