Leucothoe nagatekubi

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 nagatekubi

Name

Leucothoe nagatekubi White & Reimer, 2012

Holotype: RUMF-ZC-1768, ♂.

Type locality: Japan, Mizugama, Okinawa–jima Island, Okinawa, reef wall (26°21'35"N, 127°44'22"E), in canals of orange encrusting sponge, Clathria of Schmidt 1862, 10 m, N.S. White, col., 26 February 2011.

Etymology: After the Japanese words ‘nagai’, meaning ‘long’, and ‘tekubi’, meaning ‘wrist’ and referring to the elongate carpus on gnathopod 2. (Pronounced na-ga-tay-koo-bee).

References

White, K.N. & Reimer, J.D. 2012. Commensal Leucothoidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Part I: ascidian-dwellers. ZooKeys 163: 13–55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.163.2003 . Reference page.

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