Lepidepecreella Schellenberg, 1926: 281. ― Stephensen, 1931: 6. ― Stephensen, 1935: 101. ― Gurjanova, 1951: 279. ―J.L. Barnard, 1969: 347. ― Ledoyer, 1986: 774. ― Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 494. ― Lowry & Stoddart, 1994: 171.
Paracyclocaris K.H. Barnard, 1930: 321 (type species Paracyclocaris bidens K.H. Barnard, 1930).
Type species. Lepidepecreella ctenophora Schellenberg, 1926, monotypy.
Diagnosis. With the characters of the family.
Remarks. There is some doubt as to whether all species of Lepidepecreella have a uniramous uropod 3 with a large projecting spur on the peduncle or whether some have a biramous uropod 3. Stephensen (1931: 6) when synonymising Paracyclocaris K.H. Barnard, 1930 with Lepidepecreella commented that "... probably the single difference is uropod 3: with two rami (one very short) in Lepidepecreella, with one ramus in Paracyclocaris." Although Schellenberg (1926) depicted a biramous uropod 3 for L. ctenophora (the type species of Lepidepecreella) we have examined the type material and found that the supposed inner ramus is not articulated and is really a projection of the peduncle. It is likely that other species which have been reported or illustrated as having a biramous uropod 3 (L. cymba and possibly L. charno) have this same condition.
Species composition. Lepidepecreella now contains 11 species: L. andeep Berge, Vader & Lockhart, 2004; L. bidens (K.H. Barnard, 1930); L. charno J.L. Barnard, 1966; L. ctenophora Schellenberg, 1926; L. cymba (Goës, 1866); L. emarginata Nicholls, 1938; L. nellae sp. nov.; L. ovalis K.H. Barnard, 1932; L. pamanzi Ledoyer, 1986; L. sarcelle Lowry & Stoddart, 1994; L. tridactyla Bellan-Santini, 1972.