LEDA 42160 falls into the classification of Magellanic spiral galaxy, or type Sm for brief, under the de Vaucouleurs galaxy category system. Magellanic spiral galaxies can be additional sub-categorized as barred (SBm), unbarred (SAm), and weakly barred (SABm), where a bar is an elongated bar-shape at a galaxys core. Generally speaking, Magellanic spiral galaxies are dwarf galaxies with just one single spiral arm.
