OCEAN-UKRAINE - Leptocheliidae Lang, 1973

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Leptocheliidae Lang, 1973

Leptocheliidae

AphiaID

136160 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136160)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Paratanaoidea Lang, 1949

Direct children (40)

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Subfamily Konariinae Bamber, 2013
1. Genus Antiparus Gutu, 2016
2. Genus Bassoleptochelia Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2012
3. Genus Brunarus Bamber & Marshall, 2015
4. Genus Konarus Bamber, 2006
5. Genus Makraleptochelia Araujo-Silva & Larsen, 2012
6. Genus Parakonarus Bird, 2011
7. Genus Pseudoleptochelia Lang, 1973
Subfamily Leptocheliinae Lang, 1973
1. Genus Alloleptochelia Gutu, 2016
2. Genus Araleptochelia Błażewicz-Paszkowycz & Bamber, 2012
3. Genus Bathyleptochelia Larsen, 2003
4. Genus Cacoheterotanais Morales-Núñez & Heard, 2015
5. Genus Catenarius Bamber, 2008
6. Genus Chondrochelia Gutu, 2016
7. Genus Cocotanais Esquete, 2013
8. Genus Ektraleptochelia Bamber & Marshall, 2015
9. Genus Grallatotanais Gutu & Iliffe, 2001
10. Genus Hargeria Lang, 1973
11. Genus Heterotanais Sars, 1882
12. Genus Intermedichelia Gutu, 1996
13. Genus Kalloleptochelia Gutu, 2016
14. Genus Leptochelia Dana, 1849
15. Genus Makassaritanais Gutu, 2012
16. Genus Mesotanais Dollfus, 1897
17. Genus Neoleptochelia Gutu, 2011
18. Genus Nuberis Bamber & Marshall, 2015
19. Genus Ogleus Morales-Núñez & Heard, 2013
20. Genus Paraleptochelia Gutu, 2016
21. Genus Poorea Edgar, 2012
22. Genus Psalidichelia Bird, 2020
23. Genus Pseudonototanais Lang, 1973
24. Genus Permixtimella Gutu, 2016 accepted as Ektraleptochelia Bamber & Marshall, 2015 (synonym)
Subfamily Metaleptocheliinae Gutu, 2016
1. Genus Metaleptochelia Gutu, 2016
Subfamily Catenariinae Bamber, 2013 accepted as Leptocheliinae Lang, 1973 (invalidated by Gutu, 2016)
Subfamily Heterotanaidinae Larsen & Wilson, 2002 accepted as Leptocheliinae Lang, 1973 (suppressed)
Subfamily Leptocheliidae incertae sedis (temporary name)
1. Genus Azobacescus Bamber, 2014
2. Genus Larsmentia Bamber & Marshall, 2015

Environment

marine, brackish

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. [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy synonymized with Paratanaidae by Sieg, 1976 but later removed from synonymy (Sieg, 1984)

Taxonomy synonymized with Paratanaidae by Sieg, 1976 but later removed from synonymy (Sieg, 1984) [details]

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Leptocheliidae Lang, 1973. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=136160 on 2025-07-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bird, Graham

2005-03-25 11:06:31Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2005-04-18 07:42:39Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2007-10-11 09:15:18Z

checked

Anderson, Gary

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Nomenclature

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. [details]

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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

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. [details]

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. [details]

taxonomy source Bamber, R. N. (2006). Shallow water tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Zootaxa. 1108: 1-21., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01108p021f.pdf [details]

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. [details]

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. , available online at http://www.agu.org/books/ar/v045/AR045.pdf [details]

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. [details]

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. [details]

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. [details]

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., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.1 [details] Available for editors

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taxonomy source Sieg, J. (1976). Zum natürlichen System der Dikonophora Lang (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Zeitschrift für Zoologischer Systematik und Evolutionsforschung. 14: 177-198. [details]

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. [details]

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. [details]

Identification resource

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. [details]

identification resource Larsen, K. (2005). Deep-Sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Brill, Leiden. [details]

Other

additional source Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016)., available online at http://aquila.usm.edu/tanaids30/3 [details]