Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Tanaidacea > Suborder Tanaidomorpha > Superfamily Paratanaoidea

Leptocheliidae Lang, 1973

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Heterotanaidinae Larsen & Wilson, 2002
Konariinae Bamber, 2013
Leptocheliinae Lang, 1973

Literature

basis of record	Bird, G.J. 2001b. Tanaidacea. In: Costello, M.J., C.S. Emblow, & R. White (eds.), European Register of Marine Species. A Check-List of the Marine Species in Europe and a Bibliography of Guides to Their Identification.-- Patrimoines Naturels 50: 310-315.
additional source	Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp.
additional source	Gutu, M., & J. Sieg. 1999. 9 Ordre des Tanaïdacés (Tanaidacea Hansen, 1895). Pages 353-389, In: Forest, J., M. Bacescu, D. Bellan-Santini, G.A. Boxshall, Ph. Cals, J.-P. Casanova, H. Dalens, M. Gutu, R.R. Hessler, J.P. Lagardère, Th. Monod, H. Nouvel, I. Petrescu, M.-L. Roman, J. Sieg, J.-P. Trilles, & L. Watling, L. (eds.), Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie, 7, Crustacés, 3A. Péracarides [Treatise on Zoology: Anatomy, Systematics, Biology, 7, Crustaceans, 3A. Peracarida]. Mémoires de l´Institut Océanographique, Monaco, 19. Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco.
identification resource	Larsen, K. 2005. Deep-Sea Tanaidacea (Peracarida) from the Gulf of Mexico. Brill, Leiden.
identification resource	Larsen K. & Shimomura, M. (2007) Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Japan. II. Tanaidomorpha from the East China Sea, the West Pacific Ocean, and the Nansei Islands. Zootaxa 1464: 1-43.

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Citation

Anderson, G. (2014). Leptocheliidae Lang, 1973. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136160