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 chiisainame

Name

  • Leucothoe chiisainame White & Reimer, 2012
Holotype: RUMF-ZC-1874, ♀.
Type locality: Japan, Kurio, Yakushima Island, Kagoshima, reef wall (30°16'00"N, 130°24'55"E), among coral rubble, 7–10 m, K.N. White and N.S. White, col., 26 May 2011.
Etymology: After the Japanese words ‘chiisai’, meaning ‘small’ and ‘me’, meaning ‘eye’ and referring to the very small eye (pronounced chee-sy-nah-may).

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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