Genus Leander Desmarest, 1849
- Leander Desmarest, E. 1849. Description d'un nouveau genre de Crustacés de la section des Décapodes Macroures, famille des Salicoques, tribu des Palémoniens. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 7(2): 87-94 2 pls [92] [gender masculine].
Type species:
Leander erraticus E. Desmarest, 1849 by monotypy. - Cryptoleander Gurney, R. & Lebour, M.V. 1941. On the larvae of certain Crustacea Macrura mainly from Bermuda. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 41: 89-181, 26 text-figs [145, 159] [Gurney, R. 1938. The larvae of the Decapod Crustacea, Palaemonidae and Alpheidae. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928–29 6(1): 1–60 figs 1–265 (35) proposed this name as a uninominal collective group name; but it was Gurney & Lebour (op. cit.) who referred Leander tenuicornis to the name, thereby according it generic status; gender masculine].
Type species:
Palaemon tenuicornis Say, 1818 by monotypy.Secondary source:
Gurney, R. 1938. The larvae of the Decapod Crustacea, Palaemonidae and Alpheidae. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 1928–29 6(1): 1-60 figs 1-265.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [5]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Red Sea to Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, West and E Atlantic, and Mediterranean.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
General References
Chace, F.A., Jr & Bruce, A.J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910, Part 6: Superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 543: 1-152 [6] (key to Leander species)
History of changes
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