Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Tanaidacea > Suborder Apseudomorpha > Superfamily Apseudoidea

Metapseudidae Lang, 1970

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chondropodinae Gutu, 2008
Metapseudinae Lang, 1970
Synapseudinae Gutu, 1972

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: メタアプセウデス科

Literature

original description	Lang, K. (1970). Taxonomische und phylogenetische Untersuchungen über die Tanaidaceen 4. Aufteilung der Apseudiden in vier Familien nebst aufstellung von zwei Gattungen und einer Art der neuen Familie Leiopidae. Arkiv för Zoologi. Series 2, 22 (16): 595-626.
basis of record	Bird, G.J. (2001). Tanaidacea. In: Costello, M.J., C.S. Emblow, & R. White (eds.), European Register of Marine Species. A Check-List of the Marine Species in Europe and a Bibliography of Guides to Their Identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 310-315.
additional source	Anderson, G. (2016). Tanaidacea-- Thirty Years of Scholarship. (Vers. 2.0, Dec., 2016).
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1980). Sind die Dikonophora eine polyphyletische Gruppe?. Zoologischer Anzieger. 205 (5-6): 401-416.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M. (1996). The synoptic table and key to superspecific taxa of recent Apseudomorpha (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Travaux du Museum d'Histoire naturelle “Grigore Antipa”. 36: 135-146.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M. (1972). Phylogenetic and systematic considerations upon the Monokononophora (Crustacea- Tanaidacea) with the suggestions of a new family and several new subfamilies. Revue Roumaine de Biologie (Série de Biologie Animale). 17: 297-305.
taxonomy source	Sieg, J. (1983). Tanaidacea, Pars 6. Pages 1-552, In: Gruner, H.-E. & Holthuis, L.B. (eds.). Crustaceorum Catalogus. Junk, the Hague.
taxonomy source	Bacescu, M. (1976). Representatives of the family Synapseudidae (Crustacea,Tanaidacea) from the Tanzanian coral reefs: one new genus (Curtipleon) and three new species of Synapseudes. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 17: 51-63.
taxonomy source	Bacescu, M. (1978). Contribution to the knowledge of Monokonophora (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from the NW of the Indian Ocean. Memoriile Sectiunii Stiintifice. Series 4 (1): 197-220.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M. (2008). On the systematic position of the genera Trichapseudes Barnard and Hoplomachus Gutu, and the description of a new metapseudid subfamily (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha). Travaux du Muséum National d´Histoire naturelle “Grigore Antipa”. 51: 71-77.
taxonomy source	Gutu, M. (1981). A new contribution to the systematics and phylogeny of the suborder Monokonophora (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Travaux du Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 23: 81-108.