Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Harpacticoida > Family Tegastidae > Genus Tegastes

Tegastes nanus Sars G.O., 1904

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tegastes*	Norman, 1903	accepted genus name
*Amymone*	Müller O.F., 1785	synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1904). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts V & VI. Harpacticidae (concluded), Peltidiidae, Tegastidae, Porcellidiidae, Idyidae (part). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum. 5:57-80, pls. 33-48.
basis of record	Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50:268-280.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	McAlice, B.J. & W.L. Coffin. (1990). First records of Tegastes falcatus (Norman, 1868) and T. nanus Sars, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the east coast of the United States and a redescription of T. nanus. Journal of Crustacean Biology 10(4):703-707.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Kornev, P.N. & E.C. Chertoprud. (2008). Copepod Crustaceans of the Order Harpactiocida of the White Sea. Morphology, Systematics, Ecoloy. 379 pp. Biology Faculty, Moscow State University. Tovarishchestvo Nauchmikh Izdanii, KMK, Moscow, 370pp. ISBN 978-5-87317-410-2 (In Russian).
redescription	Ferrari, F.D., P.V. Rybnikov & H.U. Dahms. (2007). Redescription of Tegastes nanus Sars, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tegastidae) from Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. Invertebrate Zoology. 4(1):1-14.

Genbank

Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Tegastes nanus Sars G.O., 1904. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116514