Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida

Leptastacidae Lang, 1948

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Afroleptastacus Huys, 1992
Archileptastacus Huys, 1992
Arenocaris Nicholls, 1935
Leptastacus Scott T., 1906
Meloriastacus Huys & Todaro, 1997
Minervella Cottarelli & Venanzetti, 1989
Neopsammastacus Cottarelli & Venanzetti, 1989
Paraleptastacus Wilson C.B., 1932
Psamathea Cottarelli & Venanzetti, 1989
Psammastacus Apostolov & Marinov, 1988
Psammastacus Nicholls, 1935
Schizothrix Huys, 1992
Stereoxiphos Huys & Conroy-Dalton, 2005

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: クシゲスナミジンコ科

Literature

original description	Lang, K. (1948). Monographie der Harpacticiden. Vol. 2. [Monographs of the Harpacticites. Vol. 2]. Hakan Ohlsson's Boktryckeri, Lund; reprinted Nordiska Bokhandeln, Stockholm. 2:897-1683, figs. 362-610, maps 1-378. (reprinted 1976).
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50:268-280.
additional source	Huys, R. (1992). The amphiatlantic distribution of Leptastacus macronyx (T. Scott, 1892) (Copepoda: Harpacticoida): a paradigm of taxonomic confusion; and a cladistic approach to the classification of the Leptastacidae Lang, 1948. Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie 4:23-196, 52 figs.
additional source	Bodin, P. (1997). Catalogue of the new marine Harpacticoid Copepods. Studiedocumenten van het K.B.I.N. = Documents de Travail de l'I.R.Sc.N.B., 89. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 89: 1-304.
additional source	Huys, R. (2009). Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa. 2183:1-99.