Leucothoe adelphe White & Thomas, 2009 Leucothoe adelphe White & Thomas, 2009: 498–501, figs 3, 4. Type locality and specimens. Three Sisters Bommie, Yonge Reef, Lizard Island 14°36.104'S 145°37.126'E. Holotype, male, 1.6 mm, AM P 71436; paratype, female, 1.9 mm, AM P 71271. Material examined. 3 males, AM P 79819. Diagnosis based on description by White & Thomas (2009). Diagnosis. Anterodistal head margin rounded with cusp. Ventral cephalic keel transverse. Gnathopod 1 basis slightly inflated, bare; dactylus reaching 0.1 x propodus length. Gnathopod 2 basis stout, widened distally; carpus distally truncate, smooth; propodus palm convex with four blunt projections. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrow. Uropods 1–3 rami lined with short setae. Telson, apex with weak point. Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 1 carpus proximal margin without strong dentitions, weakly dentate anterodistally; propodus palm with fewer dentitions. Gnathopod 2 basis anterior margin with two long and two short setae, anterodistal margin with row of four short setae; propodus mediofacial setal row with fewer setae; submarginal setal row with five setae; dactylus distally acute. Habitat. Among coral rubble and fibrous brown algae; 6– 20 m. Host. Unknown. Distribution. Pacific Ocean: Lizard Island, Australia (White & Thomas 2009).

Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821

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