WoRMS taxon details
Neoleptastacus Nicholls, 1945
347571 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:347571)
accepted
Genus
Neoleptastacus spinicaudatus Nicholls, 1945 (type by original designation)
Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus) Nicholls, 1945 · unaccepted
Pararenopontia Bodiou & Colomines, 1986 · unaccepted (junior synonym according to Sak,...)
junior synonym according to Sak, Huys & Karaytug, 2008
- Species Neoleptastacus abbreviatus Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys. 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus acanthus Chappuis, 1954
- Species Neoleptastacus africanus (Chappuis & Rouch, 1961)
- Species Neoleptastacus angolensis (Kunz, 1971)
- Species Neoleptastacus australis (Chappuis, 1952)
- Species Neoleptastacus chaufriassei (Bodiou & Colomines, 1986)
- Species Neoleptastacus chilensis Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys. 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus clasingi (Mielke, 1985)
- Species Neoleptastacus emendatus Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys. 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus gussoae (Cottarelli, 1973)
- Species Neoleptastacus huysi (Karanovic, 2000)
- Species Neoleptastacus indicus (Rao, 1967)
- Species Neoleptastacus ishikarianus (Itô Tat., 1968)
- Species Neoleptastacus longiremis (Chappuis, 1954)
- Species Neoleptastacus ornamentus (Mielke, 1987)
- Species Neoleptastacus pacificus (Mielke, 1985)
- Species Neoleptastacus panamensis Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys. 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus phreaticus (Cottarelli, Bruno & Venanzetti, 1994)
- Species Neoleptastacus pseudishikarianus Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys, 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus rectus Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys. 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus reductaspinus (Mielke, 1987)
- Species Neoleptastacus speluncae (Cottarelli, Bruno & Venanzetti, 1994)
- Species Neoleptastacus spicatus (Mielke, 1985)
- Species Neoleptastacus spinicaudatus Nicholls, 1945
- Species Neoleptastacus supersetosus Sak, Karaytuğ & Huys. 2024
- Species Neoleptastacus trisetosus (Mielke, 1982)
- Species Neoleptastacus accraensis (Lang, 1965) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Neoleptastacus breviarticulata (Mielke, 1975) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Neoleptastacus secundus Krishnaswamy, 1957 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Nicholls, A.G. (1945). Marine Copepoda from Western Australia. IV. Psammophilous harpacticoids. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29:17-24, figs. 1-3. (1-iii-1945) [details] Available for editors 
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Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Neoleptastacus Nicholls, 1945. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=347571 on 2025-04-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Nicholls, A.G. (1945). Marine Copepoda from Western Australia. IV. Psammophilous harpacticoids. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29:17-24, figs. 1-3. (1-iii-1945) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Pararenopontia Bodiou & Colomines, 1986) Bodiou, J.Y. & J.C. Colomines. (1986). Harpacticoïdes (Copépodes) des Iles Crozet I. Description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Arenopontia Kunz. Harpacticoids (Crustacea, Copepoda) from the Crozet Islands. Description of a new species of the genus Arenopontia Kunz. Vie et Milieu 36(1):55-64, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (iv.1986, English summary) [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus) Nicholls, 1945) Nicholls, A.G. (1945). Marine Copepoda from Western Australia. IV. Psammophilous harpacticoids. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29:17-24, figs. 1-3. (1-iii-1945) [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Pararenopontia Bodiou & Colomines, 1986) Bodiou, J.Y. & J.C. Colomines. (1986). Harpacticoïdes (Copépodes) des Iles Crozet I. Description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Arenopontia Kunz. Harpacticoids (Crustacea, Copepoda) from the Crozet Islands. Description of a new species of the genus Arenopontia Kunz. Vie et Milieu 36(1):55-64, figs. 1-2, tab. 1. (iv.1986, English summary) [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Arenopontia (Neoleptastacus) Nicholls, 1945) Nicholls, A.G. (1945). Marine Copepoda from Western Australia. IV. Psammophilous harpacticoids. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 29:17-24, figs. 1-3. (1-iii-1945) [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Sak, S., S. Karaytuğ & R. Huys. (2024). Review of Neoleptastacus Nicholls, 1945 (Harpacticoida, Arenopontiidae), including an updated key to species and proposal of Phreatipontia gen. nov. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5525(1):1-66. Oct 2024., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5525.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
