Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Tanaidacea > Suborder Tanaidomorpha > Superfamily Paratanaoidea > Family Paratanaidae > Subfamily Paratanaidinae

Paratanais Dana, 1853

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Paratanais atlanticus Dollfus, 1897
Paratanais martinsi Bamber & Costa, 2009
Paratanais rigidus Bate & Westwood, 1868

Literature

original description	Dana, J.D. (1853-1855). Crustacea. Part II. In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia. 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.].
basis of record	Bird, G.J. (2001). Tanaidacea. In: Costello, M.J., C.S. Emblow, & R. White (eds.), European Register of Marine Species. A Check-List of the Marine Species in Europe and a Bibliography of Guides to Their Identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 310-315.
additional source	Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016).
taxonomy source	Larsen, K., & Heard, R.W. (2001). A new tanaidacean subfamily, Bathytanaidinae (Crustacea: Paratanaididae), from the Australian continental shelf and slope. Zootaxa. 19: 1-22.
taxonomy source	Lang, K. (1949). Contribution to the systematics and synonymics of the Tanaidacea. Arkiv för Zoologie. Series 1, 42 (18): 1-14.
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1980). Sind die Dikonophora eine polyphyletische Gruppe?. Zoologischer Anzieger. 205 (5-6): 401-416.
identification resource	Morales-Núñez, A.G., & Heard, R.W. (2014). A new species of Paratanais Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Peracarida, Tanaidacea, Paratanaidae) from Puerto Rico, northwestern Atlantic. ZooKeys. 397: 49-70.