''Tanais'' is a genus of
malacostracan
Malacostraca is the second largest of the six class (biology), classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 order (biology), orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity ...
s in the family
Tanaididae
Tanaididae is a family of malacostracans in the order Tanaidacea. There are about 19 genera and more than 90 described species in Tanaididae.
Genera
These 19 genera belong to the family Tanaididae:
* ''Allotanais'' Shiino, 1978
* ''Anatanais'' ...
. There are about 11 described species in ''Tanais''.
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Species
These 11 species belong to the genus ''Tanais'':
* '' Tanais dulongii'' (Audouin, 1826) i c g b
* '' Tanais gayi'' Nicolet, 1849 i c g
* '' Tanais grimaldii'' Dollfus, 1897 i c g
* '' Tanais loricatus'' Bate, 1864 i c g
* '' Tanais macrocheles'' Nicolet, 1849 i c g
* '' Tanais nuwalianensis'' Tzeng & Hsueh, 2014 c g
* '' Tanais pongo'' Bamber, 2005 c g
* '' Tanais portiatius'' i g
* '' Tanais tenuicornis'' (Haswell, 1882) i
* ''Tanais tinhauae
Tanais ( ''Tánaïs''; ) was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. It was a bishopric as Tana and remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Tanais.
Location
The delta reaches into the ...
'' Bamber and Bird, 1997 i c g
* '' Tanais vanis'' M. A. Miller, 1940 i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[ c = Catalogue of Life,][ g = GBIF,][ b = Bugguide.net]
References
Tanaidacea
Malacostraca genera
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
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