Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Leptochela Stimpson, 1860

HKRMS taxon details

Leptochela Stimpson, 1860

AphiaID

107050 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107050)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Leptochela gracilis Stimpson, 1860 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Pasiphaeidae Dana, 1852

Original name

Leptochela Stimpson, 1860

Synonymised names

Leptochela (Leptochela) Stimpson, 1860 · unaccepted (superseded status)

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Species Leptochela aculeocaudata Paulson, 1875
Species Leptochela gracilis Stimpson, 1860
Species Leptochela pugnax De Man, 1916
Species Leptochela sydniensis Dakin & Colefax, 1940
Subgenus Leptochela (Leptochela) Stimpson, 1860 accepted as Leptochela Stimpson, 1860 (superseded status)
1. Species Leptochela (Leptochela) aculeocaudata Paulson, 1875 accepted as Leptochela aculeocaudata Paulson, 1875 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
2. Species Leptochela (Leptochela) gracilis Stimpson, 1860 accepted as Leptochela gracilis Stimpson, 1860 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
3. Species Leptochela (Leptochela) pugnax De Man, 1916 accepted as Leptochela pugnax De Man, 1916 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
4. Species Leptochela (Leptochela) sydniensis Dakin & Colefax, 1940 accepted as Leptochela sydniensis Dakin & Colefax, 1940 (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, brackish

Original description

Stimpson, W. (1860). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republic Federata missa, Cadwaladore Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VIII, Crustacea Macrura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 22-47 [91-116 in separate]. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Leptochela Stimpson, 1860. Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107050 on 2026-09-08

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Leptochela Stimpson, 1860. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107050 on 2026-09-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Türkay, Michael

2010-09-09 09:49:35Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

2011-11-04 12:23:41Z

changed

Fransen, Charles

2023-01-04 00:11:08Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Stimpson, W. (1860). Prodromus descriptionis animalium evertebratorum, quae in Expeditione ad Oceanum Pacificum Septentrionalem, a Republic Federata missa, Cadwaladore Ringgold et Johanne Rodgers Ducibus, observavit et descripsit. Pars VIII, Crustacea Macrura. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 12: 22-47 [91-116 in separate]. [details]

basis of record Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Chace, F.A.Jr. (1976). Shrimps of the pasiphaeid genus Leptochela with descriptions of three new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 222: 1-51. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.222 [details] Available for editors

additional source De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Introduced: alien

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leptochela)
To Genbank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Leptochela (Leptochela) Stimpson, 1860)
To ITIS