WoRMS taxon details
Akanthophoreinae Sieg, 1986
136173 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:136173)
accepted
Subfamily
Akanthophoreus Sieg, 1986 (type by original designation)
- Genus Akanthophoreus Sieg, 1986
- Genus Brixitanais Kakui, 2024
- Genus Mimicarhaphura Sieg, 1986
- Genus Parakanthophoreus Larsen & Araújo-Silva, 2014
- Genus Paraleptognathia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981
- Genus Pseudakanthophoreus Lubinevsky, Tom & Bird, 2022
- Genus Saurotipleona Bird, 2015
- Genus Tumidochelia Knight, Larsen & Heard, 2003
- Genus Brixia Jóźwiak, Drumm, Bird & Błażewicz, 2018 accepted as Brixitanais Kakui, 2024 (unaccepted > junior homonym)
marine
Sieg, J. (1986). Tanaidacea (Crustacea) von der Antarktis und Subantarktis. II. Tanaidacea gesammelt von Dr. J.W. Wägele während der Deutschen Antarktis Expedition 1983. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Museum der Universität Kiel.</em> 2 (4): 1-80. [details]
Taxonomy originally included Akanthophoreus, Andrognathia, Araphura, Arhaphuroides, Arthrura, Filitanais, Leptognathiella,...
Taxonomy originally included Akanthophoreus, Andrognathia, Araphura, Arhaphuroides, Arthrura, Filitanais, Leptognathiella, Leptognathioides, Libanius, Macrinella, Monstrotanais, Nematotanais, Paraleptognathia, Robustochelia, Stenotanais, Tanaella, Haplocope, and Mimicarhaphura n.g. [details]
WoRMS (2026). Akanthophoreinae Sieg, 1986. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=136173 on 2026-05-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Sieg, J. (1986). Tanaidacea (Crustacea) von der Antarktis und Subantarktis. II. Tanaidacea gesammelt von Dr. J.W. Wägele während der Deutschen Antarktis Expedition 1983. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Museum der Universität Kiel.</em> 2 (4): 1-80. [details]
basis of record Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016)., available online at http://aquila.usm.edu/tanaids30/3 [details]
basis of record Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016)., available online at http://aquila.usm.edu/tanaids30/3 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Bamber, R. N. (2008). Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. <em>In: Davie, P.J.F., & J.A. Phillips (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature.</em> 54 (1): 143-217. [details] Available for editors 
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taxonomy source Bird, G.J., & Larsen, K. (2009). Tanaidacean phylogeny – the second step: the basal paratanaoidean families (Crustacea: Malacostraca). <em>Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny.</em> 67 (2): 137-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.67.e31693 [details]
taxonomy source Dojiri, M., & Sieg, J. (1997). The Tanaidacea. Pages 181-278, In: Blake, J.A., & Scott, P.H. (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 11. The Crustacea Part 2. The Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA. [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., & Bamber, R.N. (2011). Tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mudvolcano and seep sites on the Norwegian Margin. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3061: 1–35; 18 October 2011., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3061.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Sieg, J.; Zibrowius, H. (1988). Association of the tube inhabiting tanaidacean, <i>Bifida scleractinicola</i> gen. nov., sp. nov., with bathyal scleractinians off New Caledonia (Crustacea Tanaidacea - Cnidaria Scleractinia). <em>Mésogée.</em> 48: 189-199. [details]
taxonomy source Sieg, J., & Dojiri, M. (1991). Two new species and a new genus of the suborder Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from Californian waters. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 25: 1493-1512., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939100770951 [details]
taxonomy source Gutu, M., & Sieg, J. (1999). Ordre des Tanaïdacés (Tanaidacea Hansen, 1895). <em>Pages 353-389, In: Forest, J., Bacescu, M., Bellan-Santini, D., Boxshall, G.A., Cals, Ph., Casanova, J.-P., Dalens, H., Gutu, M., Hessler, R.R., Lagardère, J.P. , Monod, Th., Nouvel, H., Petrescu, I., Roman, M.-L., Sieg, J., Trilles, J.-P., & Watling, L. (eds.), Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie, 7, Crustacés, 3A. Péracarides. Mémoires de l´Institut Océanographique, Monaco, 19. Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco.</em> (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy Kamila, G.; Magdalena, B. (2025). Hidden diversity in the deep North Pacific and Atlantic: New taxa and a revised subfamilial framework of Akanthophoreidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea). <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 103591., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103591 [details]
[request]taxonomy source Bird, G.J., & Larsen, K. (2009). Tanaidacean phylogeny – the second step: the basal paratanaoidean families (Crustacea: Malacostraca). <em>Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny.</em> 67 (2): 137-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.67.e31693 [details]
taxonomy source Dojiri, M., & Sieg, J. (1997). The Tanaidacea. Pages 181-278, In: Blake, J.A., & Scott, P.H. (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 11. The Crustacea Part 2. The Isopoda, Cumacea and Tanaidacea. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA. [details] Available for editors
[request]taxonomy source Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., & Bamber, R.N. (2011). Tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mudvolcano and seep sites on the Norwegian Margin. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3061: 1–35; 18 October 2011., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3061.1.1 [details] Available for editors
[request]taxonomy source Sieg, J.; Zibrowius, H. (1988). Association of the tube inhabiting tanaidacean, <i>Bifida scleractinicola</i> gen. nov., sp. nov., with bathyal scleractinians off New Caledonia (Crustacea Tanaidacea - Cnidaria Scleractinia). <em>Mésogée.</em> 48: 189-199. [details]
taxonomy source Sieg, J., & Dojiri, M. (1991). Two new species and a new genus of the suborder Tanaidomorpha (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from Californian waters. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 25: 1493-1512., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939100770951 [details]
taxonomy source Gutu, M., & Sieg, J. (1999). Ordre des Tanaïdacés (Tanaidacea Hansen, 1895). <em>Pages 353-389, In: Forest, J., Bacescu, M., Bellan-Santini, D., Boxshall, G.A., Cals, Ph., Casanova, J.-P., Dalens, H., Gutu, M., Hessler, R.R., Lagardère, J.P. , Monod, Th., Nouvel, H., Petrescu, I., Roman, M.-L., Sieg, J., Trilles, J.-P., & Watling, L. (eds.), Traité de Zoologie: Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie, 7, Crustacés, 3A. Péracarides. Mémoires de l´Institut Océanographique, Monaco, 19. Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco.</em> (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy Kamila, G.; Magdalena, B. (2025). Hidden diversity in the deep North Pacific and Atlantic: New taxa and a revised subfamilial framework of Akanthophoreidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea). <em>Progress in Oceanography.</em> 103591., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103591 [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy originally included Akanthophoreus, Andrognathia, Araphura, Arhaphuroides, Arthrura, Filitanais, Leptognathiella, Leptognathioides, Libanius, Macrinella, Monstrotanais, Nematotanais, Paraleptognathia, Robustochelia, Stenotanais, Tanaella, Haplocope, and Mimicarhaphura n.g. [details]
