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Tanais stanfordi H. Richardson, 1901

Found in surfical anchialine coastal lava field pools and lagoons, Saline volcanic crater lakes and subterranean anchialine salt and brackish waters

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Arthropoda

Class
Malacostraca

Order
Tanaidacea

Suborder
Tanaidomorpha

Superfamily
Tanaoidea

Family
Tanaidae

Genus
Tanais

Species
stanfordi

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Sinelobus stanfordi (H. Richardson, 1901)

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Santa Cruz, Isabela, Genovesa

References

Peck, S.B. (1994) Diversity and zoogeography of the non-oceanic Crustacea of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (excluding terrestrial Isopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 54-69.

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