MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Leptochelia mercantilis Smith, 1906

ERMS taxon details

Leptochelia mercantilis Smith, 1906

AphiaID

136472 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136472)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Leptochelia Dana, 1849

Original name

Leptochelia mercantilis Smith, 1906

Synonymised names

Pseudoleptochelia mercantilis (Smith, 1906) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Smith, G. (1906). High and low dimorphism. With an account of certain Tanaidae of the Bay of Naples. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 17 (3): 312-340. [details]

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Leptochelia mercantilis Smith, 1906. Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=136472 on 2025-05-27

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Leptochelia mercantilis Smith, 1906. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=136472 on 2025-05-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bird, Graham

2010-06-07 10:19:49Z

changed

Anderson, Gary

2013-08-30 11:33:00Z

changed

Blazewicz, Magdalena

Licensing

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original description Smith, G. (1906). High and low dimorphism. With an account of certain Tanaidae of the Bay of Naples. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. 17 (3): 312-340. [details]

taxonomy source Morales-Núñez, A.G., Heard, R.W., & Alfaro, M. (2013). A new species of Pseudoleptochelia Lang, (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea: Leptocheliidae) from the Northwest Atlantic with observations on the status of the genus. Zootaxa. 3664 (2): 259-282. [details]

taxonomy source Bamber, R.N. (2013). A re-assessment of Konarus Bamber, 2006 and sympatric leptocheliids from Australasia, and of Pseudoleptochelia Lang (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea). Zootaxa. 3694 (1): 1-39., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.1 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Bird, G.J. (2001). Tanaidacea. In: Costello, M.J., C.S. Emblow, & R. White (eds.), European Register of Marine Species. A Check-List of the Marine Species in Europe and a Bibliography of Guides to Their Identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 310-315. (look up in RoR) [details]

additional source Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016)., available online at http://aquila.usm.edu/tanaids30/3 [details]