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Leipsuropus Stebbing, 1899 
Leipsuropus Stebbing, 1899: 237-241.—Stebbing, 1906: 
698.—J. L. Barnard, 1969: 430.—Laubitz, 1984: 79. 
Diagnosis. Following Laubitz, 1984: Pereon depressed with 
segments 6 and 7 partially fused; urosome of 3 segments. 
Antennae 1 accessory flagellum absent; epistome produced; 
maxilla 1 inner plate absent, outer plate with 8 spines; 
maxilla 2 without facial setae; maxilliped palp 4 blunt; 
gnathopod 2 of female nearly as large as that of male; 
brood plates on pereopods 2-4; uropod 2 absent, uropod 
3 without rami. 
Leipsuropus parasiticus (Haswell, 1879) 
Fig. 5 
Cyrtophium parasiticum Haswell, 1879: 274.—Haswell, 
1882: 271.—Haswell, 1885: 108, pi. 17 figs 1-7. 
Leipsuropus parasiticus. —Stebbing, 1906: 339.—Stebbing, 
1910:650.—Barnard & Dmmmond, 1981:38, figs 6,7.— 
Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 662.—Springthorpe & Lowry, 
1994:28.—Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 245 (catalogue). 
Type material. Syntypes 3 specimens, AM G.5388; 14 
specimens, AM P.3426, Port Jackson, New South Wales 
(33°51'S 151°16’E). 
