Leptochelia forresti ( Stebbing, 1896 )

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, Zootaxa 3920 (4), pp. 501-533 : 507

Leptochelia forresti ( Stebbing, 1896)

Figs 6 R, 7M

Dolichochelia forresti Stebbing, 1896: 50 –53, pl. 4 (Type locality: Mouth of Perham Harbour, Long Island, Antigua, sandy bottom covered with algae, shallow water. Holotype male, ZMUC).

Leptochelia forresti: Richardson (1905) : 23–25, fig. 25; Lang (1973): 202 –211, figs 5a–d, 6, 12a–c, 13; Suárez-Morales et al. (2004): 61 –66, figs 29–32; García-Madrigal et al. (2005): 1158 –1159, 1167; Heard et al. (2009): 245 –256, 204 (CD-Rom Species List 19.1); Drumm (2010): 692 –698; Winfield et al. (2013): 471 –479.

Geographic distribution. Costa Rica Caribbean, Mexican Caribbean, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico. Habitat. In sandy bottom covered with algae, seagrass, in shallow water.

Remarks. Lang (1973) analysed material from Thailand (Koh Kohdal and Ko Kham) and Myanmar (Rangoon). However, on the basis that cosmopolitan species are improbable in this genus, the specimens recorded as L. forresti from Thailand and Myanmar could be a different species.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Flagellum of antennule: A, Leptochelia vimesi; B, L. longimana; C, L. gadgeti; D, L. helenae; E, L. evansi; F, L. dijonesae; G, L. billambi; H, L. africana; I, L. myora; J, L. itoi; K, L. karragarra; L, L. parasavignyi; M, L. vatulelensis; N, L. dubia; O, L. opteros; P, L. dubia; Q, L. ignota. Cheliped: R, L. forresti; S, L. gadgeti; T, L. rapax; U, L. helenae; V, L. evansi; W, L. lusei; X, L. myora; Y, L. itoi; Z, L. karragarra. All figures modified from original descriptions, except N, from Dojiri & Sieg (1997); P, from Suárez-Morales et al. (2004); Q, from Edgar (2012); R, and T, from Richardson (1905).