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 hashi

Name

  • Leucothoe hashi White & Reimer, 2012
Holotype: RUMF-ZC-1747, ♂.
Type locality: Japan, Mizugama, Okinawa–jima Island, Okinawa, reef wall (26°21'35"N, 127°44'22"E), in canals of yellow-beige sponge, Callyspongia of Duchassaing and Michelotti 1864, 8–10 m, K.N. White, col., 10 April 2011.
Etymology: After the Japanese word ‘hashi’, meaning ‘chopsticks’ and referring to the extremely slender carpus and propodus of gnathopod 1. (Pronounced hah-shee.).

References

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