Leucothoidae
| Leucothoidae | |
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| Leucothoe incisa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Suborder: | Gammaridea |
| Superfamily: | |
| Family: | Leucothoidae Dana, 1852 [1] |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Anamixidae Stebbing, 1897 | |
Leucothoidae is a family of amphipods. It contains 138 species in 5 genera:[3]
- Stebbing, 1897 – 21 species
- Leucothoe Leach, 1814 – 98 species
- Thomas, 1997 – 4 species
- Schellenberg, 1938 – 13 species
- Stebbing, 1899 – 2 species
Males undergo a profound transformation when they reach sexual maturity, turning from the "leucomorph" state to the "anamorph" state. Before this transformation was recognised in 1983,[4] females and immature males were described in the genus Leucothoides (Leucothoidae), and mature males were described in the genera , and (Anamixidae). The genus Leucothoides may still be used for leucomorphs of species whose anamorph has not yet been identified.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Leucothoidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ a b J. K. Lowry, P. B. Berents & R. T. Springthorpe (October 2, 2000). "Australian Amphipoda: Leucothoidae". Australian Museum. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ Kristine N. White & James Darwin Thomas (2009). "Leucothoidae" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2260: 494–555.
- ^ James Darwin Thomas & J. Laurens Barnard (1983). "Transformation of the Leucothoides morph to the Anamixis morph (Amphipoda)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 3 (1): 154–157. doi:10.2307/1547860. JSTOR 1547860.
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