Tanaidacea

Generalised representatives of Neotanaidae, from here.

Belongs within: Eumalacostraca.
Contains: Leptocheliidae, Nototanaididae, Anarthrurinae, Pseudotanaididae, Colletteidae.

The Tanaidacea are a group of burrowing aquatic crustaceans with the second thoracopods formed into a pair of large chelae. The cephalothorax is formed from the head and two thoracic segments with the carapace fused dorsally to both those segments (Ax 1999). Most tanaidaceans are less than 5 mm in length, but at least one species reaches close to 8 cm. Members of the Tanaidomorpha live in tubes which they construct by gluing together debris; other tanaidaceans are free-living or burrowing.

<==Tanaidacea [Anisopoda, Chelifera, Tanaidea, Tanaioidea, Tanoidea]
    |--Neotanais [Neotanaidae, Neotanaidomorpha] LW02
    |    |--N. americanus Gardiner 1975 LW02
    |    `--N. serratispinosus LW02
    |--Anthracocaridomorpha [Anthracocaridacea] BWW93
    |    |--Eucryptocaris asherorum Schram 1989 BWW93
    |    `--Anthracocarididae BWW93
    |         |--Anthracocaris Calman 1933 S77
    |         |    `--A. scotica (Peach 1882) BWW93
    |         `--Ophthalmapseudes Glaessner & Malzahn 1962 BWW93, S77
    |              `--O. rhenanus (Malzahn 1957) BWW93
    |--Apseudomorpha [Apseudoidea] B08
    |    |  i. s.: Carpoapseudes prospectnes Larsen 1999 LW02
    |    |         Halmyrapseudes Bãcescu & Gutu 1974 B08
    |    |           `--H. killaiyensis Balasubrahmanyan 1959 B08
    |    |--Anuropodidae MD01
    |    |--Apseudellidae MD01
    |    |--Metapseudidae [Cycloapseudidae] MD01
    |    |--Pagurapseudidae MD01
    |    |--Sphyrapus PG98 [Sphyrapidae MD01]
    |    |    `--S. dispar PG98
    |    |--Tanapseudidae MD01
    |    |--Tanzanapseudidae MD01
    |    |--Whiteleggiidae [Leviapseudidae, Leviapseudinae] MD01
    |    |--Apseudes A99 [Apseudidae MD01]
    |    |    |--A. diversus PG98
    |    |    `--A. spinosa A99
    |    |--Gigantapseudes A99 [Gigantapseudidae MD01]
    |    |    `--G. maximus A99
    |    |--Kalliapseudes MGV06 [Kalliapseudidae MD01]
    |    |    `--K. schubarti MGV06
    |    |--Pseudohalmyrapseudes Larsen & Hansknecht 2004 [Parapseudidae] B08
    |    |    |--*P. aquadulcis Larsen & Hansknecht 2004 B08
    |    |    |--P. linnaei Bamber 2008 B08
    |    |    `--P. mussauensis (Shiino 1965) [=Apseudes mussauensis] B08
    |    `--Jurapseudidae [Jurapseudoidea] BWW93
    |         |--Carlclausus emersoni Schram et al. 1986 BWW93
    |         `--Jurapseudes BWW93
    |              |--J. acutifrostris (Sachariewa-Kowatschewa & Bachmayer 1965) BWW93
    |              `--J. friedericianus (Malzahn 1965) BWW93
    `--Tanaidomorpha [Tanaidae] LW02
         |--Cretitanais [Cretitanaidae, Cretitanaoidea] BWW93
         |    `--C. giganteus (Malzahn 1979) BWW93
         |--Tanaidoidea LW02
         |    |--Sinelobus stanfordi (Richardson 1901) B08
         |    `--Tanais H47
         |         |--T. cavolinii BBB-S95
         |         |--T. loricatus H47
         |         `--T. normani H47
         `--Paratanaidoidea [Akanthophoreinae, Leptognathiinae, Paratanaoidea] LW02
              |  i. s.: Bifida scleractinicola Sieg & Zibrowius 1981 LW02
              |         Chauliopleona Dojiri & Sieg 1997 LW02
              |         Nototanaoides Sieg & Heard 1985 LW02
              |           `--N. trifurcatus Sieg & Heard 1985 LW02
              |         Meromonakantha macrocephala (Hansen 1913) LW02
              |         Andrognathia Sieg 1983 LW02
              |         Leptognathioides polita (Hansen 1913) LW02
              |         Safaritanais Kudinova-Pasternak 1987 LW02
              |           `--S. macrochephala Kudinova-Pasternak 1987 LW02
              |         Armatognathia Kudinova-Pasternak 1987 LW02
              |           `--A. birsteini Kudinova-Pasternak 1987 LW02
              |         Pseudoparatanais Sieg 1973 LW02
              |           `--P. batei (Sars 1882) LW02
              |         Robustognathia Kudinova-Pasternak 1989 LW02
              |         Tanaopsis Sars 1896 LW02
              |           `--T. graciloides (Liljeborg 1864) LW02
              |         Pseudomacrinella Kudinova-Pasternak 1990 LW02
              |           `--P. macrocephala Kudinova-Pasternal 1990 LW02
              |         Parafilitanais Kudinova-Pasternak 1989 LW02
              |           `--P. mexicana Larsen 2002 LW02
              |         Akanthophoreus Sieg 1986 LW02
              |           `--A. gracilis (Kroyer 1842) LW02
              |         Scoloura Sieg & Dojiri 1991 LW02
              |           `--S. phillipsi Sieg & Dojiri 1991 LW02
              |         Monstrotanais Kudinova-Pasternak 1981 LW02
              |           `--M. mirabilicheles Kudinova-Pasternak 1981 LW02
              |         Mimicarhaphura Sieg 1986 LW02
              |           `--M. immanis Sieg 1986 LW02
              |         Paraleptognathia Sieg 1986 LW02
              |           `--P. antactica Sieg 1986 LW02
              |         Tanabnomia Gutu 1986 LW02
              |           `--T. caudata Gutu 1968 LW02
              |         Robustochelia Kudinova-Pasternak 1983 LW02
              |           `--R. longa Kudinova-Pasternak 1983 LW02
              |         Stenotanais Bird & Holdich 1984 LW02
              |           `--S. crassiseta Bird & Holdich 1894 LW02
              |--Leptocheliidae LW02
              |--Pseudozeuxo Sieg 1982 [incl. Charbeitanais Bamber & Bird 1997; Pseudozeuxidae] LW02
              |    `--P. belizensis Sieg 1982 LW02
              |--Paratanaididae LW02
              |    |--Bathytanais Beddard 1886 LW02
              |    |    `--B. juergeni Larsen & Wilson 1998 LW02
              |    |--Pseudobathytanais Kudinova-Pasternak 1991 LW02
              |    |    `--P. shtokmani Kudinova-Pasternak 1990 LW02
              |    `--Paratanais Dana 1852 LW02
              |         |--P. maleficus Larsen 2001 LW02
              |         `--P. nanaimoensis H47
              `--+--Nototanaididae LW02
                 `--+--Anarthrurinae LW02
                    |--Pseudotanaididae LW02
                    |--Colletteidae LW02
                    |--Leptognathia Sars 1882 [Leptognathiidae] LW02
                    |    |--L. breviremis (Liljeborg 1864) LW02
                    |    `--L. longiremis H47
                    `--Tanaellidae LW02
                         |--Araphura Bird & Holdich 1984 LW02
                         |    `--A. brevimanus (Liljeborg 1864) LW02
                         |--Araphuroides Sieg 1986 LW02
                         |    `--A. parabreviremis Sieg 1986 LW02
                         |--Arthrura Kudinova-Pasternak 1966 LW02
                         |    `--A. andriashevi Kudinova-Pasternak 1966 LW02
                         `--Tanaella Norman & Stebbing 1886 LW02
                              `--T. unisetosa Sieg 1986 LW02

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A99] Ax, P. 1999. Das System der Metazoa II. Ein Lehrbuch der phylogenetischen Systematik. Gustav Fisher Verlag: Stuttgart (transl. 2000. Multicellular Animals: The phylogenetic system of the Metazoa vol. 2. Springer).

[B08] Bamber, R. N. 2008. A new species of the freshwater tanaidacean genus Pseudohalmyrapseudes (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Parapseudidae) from Sulawesi. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24 (4): 421–428.

[BBB-S95] Boubezari, K., G. Bitar & D. Bellan-Santini. 1995. Structure et organisation de trois moulières (Mytilus galloprovincialis et Perna perna) de la région d'Alger. Mésogée 54: 63–72.

[BWW93] Briggs, D. E. G., M. J. Weedon & M. A. Whyte. 1993. Arthropoda (Crustacea excluding Ostracoda). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 321–342. Chapman & Hall: London.

[H47] Hatch, M. H. 1947. The Chelifera and Isopoda of Washington and adjacent regions. University of Washington Publications in Biology 10 (5): 155–274.

[LW02] Larsen, K., & G. D. F. Wilson. 2002. Tanaidacean phylogeny, the first step: the superfamily Paratanaidoidea. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 40: 205–222.

[MGV06] Mai, A. C. G., A. M. Garcia & J. P. Vieira. 2006. Ecologia alimentar do barrigudinho Jenynsia multidentata (Jenyns, 1842) (Pisces: Cyprinodontiformes) no estuário da Laguna dos Patos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Comunicações do Museo de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS, Serie Zoologia 19 (1): 3–18.

[MD01] Martin, J. W., & G. E. Davis. 2001. An updated classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum Los Angeles County, Science Series 39: 1–124.

[PG98] Probert, P. K., & S. L. Grove. 1998. Macrobenthic assemblages of the continental shelf and upper slope off the west coast of South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28: 259–280.

[S77] Schram, F. R. 1977. Paleozoogeography of Late Paleozoic and Triassic Malacostraca. Systematic Zoology 26 (4): 367–379.

Last updated: 10 March 2022.