Tags: Crustacean.
Paraleptamphopus is a genus of amphipods in the family Paraleptamphopidae endemic to New Zealand. The first species to be described was Calliope subterraneus (now Paraleptamphopus subterraneus) which was named by Charles Chilton in 1882. George M. Thomson described a second species in 1885 as Pherusa coerulea (now Paraleptamphopus caeruleus). Although no other species have yet been formally described it is thought that many more undescribed species exist.