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 Pseudotanaidae > Subfamily Pseudotanainae

Pseudotanais Sars, 1882

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pontotanais*	Bacescu, 1960	synonym
*Pseudotanais (Pseudotanais)*	Sars, 1882	synonym

Children

Pseudotanais affinis Hansen, 1887
Pseudotanais borceai (Bacescu, 1960)
Pseudotanais colonus Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais denticulatus Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais falcicula Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais forcipatus (Lilljeborg, 1864)
Pseudotanais jonesi Sieg, 1977
Pseudotanais lilljeborgii Sars, 1882
Pseudotanais longisetosus Sieg, 1977
Pseudotanais longispinus Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais macrocheles Sars, 1882
Pseudotanais mediterraneus Sars, 1882
Pseudotanais scalpellum Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais spatula Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais spicatus Bird & Holdich, 1989
Pseudotanais vulsella Bird & Holdich, 1989

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1882). Revision af gruppen: Isopoda Chelifera med charakteristik af nye herhen hørende arter og slægter. Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab. 7: 1-54.
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	Sieg, J. (1976). Zum natürlichen System der Dikonophora Lang (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Zeitschrift für Zoologischer Systematik und Evolutionsforschung. 14: 177-198.
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1977). Taxonomische Monographie der familie Pseudotanaidae (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 53: 1-109.
ecology source	Kakui, K. (2020). First record of a tanaidacean crustacean fed upon by an arrow worm (Chaetognatha). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History Series A (Natural History). 18: 1–4.
ecology source	Kakui, K.; Shiraki, S.; Hookabe, N. (2025). Fecampiid flatworms parasitic in a tanaidacean crustacean. Journal of Helminthology. 99.