Genus Leptocotis Streets, 1877

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptocotis Streets, T.H. 1877. Contributions to the natural history of the Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Lower California. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 7: 1-172 [136].

  Type species:

   Leptocotis spinifera Streets, 1877 by monotypy.
• Dorycephalus Bovallius, C. 1890. The Oxycephalids. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 3 15: 1-141 pls 1-7 [46, 75].

  Type species:

   Leptocotis lindstromi Bovallius, 1887 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vinogradov, M.E., Volkov, A.F. & Semenova, T.N. 1982. Amphipoda — Hyperiidea of the World Ocean. Nauka Leningrad U.S.S.R. Opred. po Faune S.S.S.R 132: 1-491 [in Russian] [421]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in tropical to temperate waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED