Leucothoe chiisainame

Leucothoe chiisainame

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Leucothoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea 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).

ZooBank: 968C3205-8DF1-4CF1-B9BF-CDF68C5EA86C

References

Primary references

Reimer, J.D., White, K.N. 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 Reference page.

Links

Leucothoe chiisainame in the World Register of Marine Species
BHL bibliography

Leucothoe chiisainame – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Leucothoe chiisainame.

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