Subgenus Leptochela (Leptochela) Stimpson, 1860
- Leptochela Stimpson, W. 1860. Crustacea Macrura. Pars VIII of Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republica Federata missa, Cadwaladaro Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12: 22-47 [42] [gender feminine].
Type species:
Leptochela gracilis Stimpson, 1860 by subsequent designation, see Kemp, S. 1915. Crustacea, Decapoda. Fauna of the Chilka Lake. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 201-325 figs 1-38 pls 12-13 [310]. - Proboloura Chace, 1976.
Type species:
Leptochela carinata Ortmann, 1893 (gender feminine) by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- De Grave, S. & Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The recent species of the Dendrobrachiate, Stenopodidean, Procarididean and Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 85(9): 195-589, figs 1-59 [255]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-Pacific Oceans, tropical western Atlantic.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
General References
Chace, F.A., Jr 1976. Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 222: 1-51 [3] (general key to species)
Hanamura, Y. 1987. Caridean shrimps obtained by R.V. "Soela" from North-West Australia, with description of a new species of Leptochela (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pasiphaeidae). The Beagle. Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 4(1): 15-33 [17] (key to NW Australian species)
Hayashi, K.-L. 1995. Brief revision of the genus Leptochela with description of two new species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pasiphaeidae). pp. 83-99 in Richer de Forges, B. (ed.). Les fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Études et Théses. Paris : ORSTOM Vol. 2 pp. 1-205.
History of changes
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