Genus Tanais Latreille, 1831

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• Tanais Latreille P.A. 1831. Hétéropodes (Heteropoda). In, Cours d'Entomologie, ou de l'histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides, des Myriapodes et des Insects. (Accompagné d'un Atlas). Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. xiii 568 pp. Atlas 26 pp. 24 pls [403].

  Type species:

   Gammarus dulongii Audouin, 1826 by subsequent designation, see Spence Bate, C. & Westwood, J.O. 1868. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea. London : John Van Voorst Vol. II Pts 20-23, pp. 401-536.

  Secondary source:

   Sieg, J. 1983. Crustaceorum Catalogus editus a H.-E. Gruner & L.B. Holthuis Pars 6. Tanaidacea. The Hague : Dr W. Junk 552 pp.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Distribution References

General References

Edgar, G.J. 2008. Shallow water Tanaidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) of Australia. Zootaxa 1836: 1-92 (diagnosis)

Sieg, J. 1983. Crustaceorum Catalogus editus a H.-E. Gruner & L.B. Holthuis Pars 6. Tanaidacea. The Hague : Dr W. Junk 552 pp. (complex world-wide synonymy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		08-May-2014	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		09-May-2011	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED