Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Leucothoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Peracarida
Ordo: Amphipoda
Subordo: Amphilochidea
Infraordo: Amphilochida
Parvordo: Amphilochidira
Superfamilia: Leucothoidea

Familia: Leucothoidae
Genus: Leucothoe
Species: Leucothoe akaisen

Name

  • Leucothoe akaisen White & Reimer, 2012
Holotype: RUMF-ZC-1854, ♂.
Type locality: Japan, Sunabe Seawall, Okinawa–jima Island, Okinawa, spur and groove reef (26°19'25"N, 127°44'43"E), among coral rubble, 6–9 m, K.N. White and N.S. White, col., 16 October 2010.
Etymology: After the Japanese words ‘akai’, meaning ‘red’ and ‘sen’, meaning ‘line’ and referring to the red stripes along the antenna 1 peduncle (pronounced ah-ky-sen).

References

  • Kristine N. White; James Davis Reimer, 2012: Commensal Leucothoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Part III: coral rubble-dwellers. ZooKeys, 173: 11–50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.173.2498 .
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