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Leptochela
Leptochela is a genus of small, shallow-water shrimp from the family Pasiphaeidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region and the western Atlantic with an isolated species in Hawaii, they are absent from the eastern Atlantic Ocean and were absent from the eastern Pacific but specimens of a species widespread in the western Atlantic were collected from waters to the south of the tip of Baja California. Two species, Leptochela aculeocaudata and Leptochela pugnax have invaded
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Lesser glass shrimp
speciesLeptochela gracilis
Leptochela pugnax
speciesLeptochela pugnax
Leptochela robusta
speciesLeptochela robusta
Leptochela aculeocaudata
speciesLeptochela aculeocaudata
Leptochela chacei
speciesLeptochela chacei
Leptochela serratorbita
speciesLeptochela serratorbita
Leptochela bermudensis
speciesLeptochela bermudensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 248513.