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Coxa 2 at least as long as broad, rounded ventrally and anteriorly, 

 coxa 1 not concealed; mandibular palp 3-articulate ; outer plate of 

 maxilliped reaching less than halfway along palp article 1. Species: 

 25, cosmopolitan, littoral to abyssal. 



Figure 114. — Leucothoidae: Leucothoe spinicarpa (Abildgaard) (Sars, 1895, pi. 100): 

 a, lower lip; b,c, maxillae 1, 2; d, maxilliped; e, uropod 3;/, telson; g,h, gnathopods 1, 2. 

 Leucothoides pottsi Shoemaker (1933a): i, telson;;, gnathopod 2. 



Leucothoella Schellenberg 



Leucothoella Schellenberg, 1928b. 



Type-species: L. bannwarthi Schellenberg, 1928b (monotypy)- 



Coxa 2 very short, broader than long, acute anteriorly, coxa 1 not 



concealed; mandibular palp 3-articulate; outer plate of maxilliped 



reaching less than halfway along palp article 1. Species: 1, tropics. 



Red Sea to Fiji, littoral. 



Leucothoides Shoemaker 



Leucothoides Shoemaker, 1933a. 



Type-species: L. pottsi Shoemaker, 1933a (monotypy). 



Coxa 2 at least as long as broad, rounded ventrally and anteriorly, 

 coxa 2 covering most of coxa 1; mandibular palp 1-articulate; outer 

 plate of maxilliped reaching less than halfway along palp article 1. 

 Species: 2, tropical Pacific, Caribbean, littoral. 



