''Leucothoe incisa'' is an
amphipod
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...
in the
family Leucothoidae
Leucothoidae is a family of amphipods. It contains 138 species in 5 genera:
*'' Anamixis'' Stebbing, 1897 – 21 species
*'' Leucothoe'' Leach, 1814 – 98 species
*'' Nepanamixis'' Thomas, 1997 – 4 species
*'' Paranamixis'' Schellenberg, 193 ...
. It grows up to long, and is whitish in colour, but a yellowish green along the back,
with intensely red eyes.
It lives at depths of up to along the
Atlantic coast of
Europe from the
Mediterranean Sea to
Scotland, and in the
North Sea.
It is part of group of
sibling species, together with ''
Leucothoe lilljeborgi Leucothoe may refer to:
* Leucothoe (mythology), the name of several characters in Greek mythology.
* ''Leucothoe'' (plant), a genus in the family (Ericaceae)
* ''Leucothoe'' (crustacean), a genus of amphipod crustaceans
* ''Leucothoé'', an early ...
'' and ''
Leucothoe occulta''.
References
Gammaridea
Crustaceans described in 1892
Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean
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