Species Tanais dulongii

Classification · Identification · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)

Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)

Superorder Peracarida (Marsupial Crustaceans)

Order Tanaidacea

Family Tanaididae

Genus Tanais

Species dulongii (Tanais dulongii)

Identification

This species is easily recognized among the New England peracarida by the setae on the abdomen which are arranged on its margins and in two transverse rows near the posterior margin of its first two segments.

Color brown, mottled with lighter above; nearly white below.(1)

Works Cited

1.	The Arthrostraca of Connecticut Kunkel B.W. 1918. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey.

Contributed by Aaron Hunt on 22 July, 2015 - 11:15am
Last updated 18 April, 2016 - 3:14pm

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