Leucothoe incisa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Family: | Leucothoidae |
Genus: | Leucothoe |
Species: | L. incisa
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Binomial name | |
Leucothoe incisa Robertson, 1892 [1]
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Leucothoe incisa is an amphipod in the family Leucothoidae. It grows up to 7 millimetres (0.28 in) long, and is whitish in colour, but a yellowish green along the back,[2] with intensely red eyes.[3] It lives at depths of up to 60 metres (200 ft) along the Atlantic coast of Europe from the Mediterranean Sea to Scotland, and in the North Sea.[2] It is part of group of sibling species, together with Leucothoe lilljeborgi and Leucothoe occulta.[4]