Species Leptochela (Leptochela) sydniensis Dakin & Colefax, 1940
Sydney Comb Shrimp
- Leptochela (Leptochela) sydniensis Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters of New South Wales, Part No. 1: With special reference to the seasonal distribution, the phytoplankton, and the planktonic Crustacea, and in particular, the Copepoda and crustacean larvae, together with an account of the more frequent members of the groups Mysidacea, Euphausiacea, Amphipoda, Mollusca, Tunicata, Chaetognatha, and some reference to the fish eggs and fish larvae. University of Sydney, Department of Zoology, Monograph 1: 1-215 303 figs 4 pls [153 figs 245, 246].
Type data:
Status unknown, AM (presumed lost), off Sydney, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific (Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, South China Sea, Japan, Philippines, New Caledonia).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), 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)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, epipelagic.
Extra Ecological Information
Occasionally found in sediment samples, pelagic at night and buried in substrate by day, 2–300 m depth.
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 [44] (redescription)
History of changes
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