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Leptochelia opteros Bamber 2008

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Leptochelia opteros Bamber, 2008

Figs 6 O, 10C, M; 12J, 14D

Leptochelia opteros Bamber, 2008: 193 –198, figs 30–32 (Type locality: Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island, Australia, 27°26.31’S, 153°32.52’E, in red algae, 10 m depth. Holotype brooding female, QM-W28126).

Geographic distribution. Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Habitat. In algae and epifaunal communities, littoral.

Notes

Published as part of Jarquín-González, Jani, García-Madrigal, María Del Socorro & Carrera-Parra, Luis Fernando, 2015, First species of Leptochelia Dana, 1849 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the Eastern Pacific, with an annotated checklist and identification keys for the genus, pp. 501-533 in Zootaxa 3920 (4) on page 517, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3920.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238294

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  • Bamber, R. N. (2008) Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. In: Davie, P. J. F. & Phillips, J. A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 54, pp. 143 - 217.