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

Akanthophoreus Sieg, 1986

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Akanthophoreus gracilis (Krøyer, 1842)

Literature

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. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Museum der Universität Kiel. 2 (4): 1-80.
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	Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., & Bamber, R.N. (2011). Tanaidomorph Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from mudvolcano and seep sites on the Norwegian Margin. Zootaxa. 3061: 1–35.
taxonomy source	Bamber, R.N., Bird, G., Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, M., & Galil, B. (2009). Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from soft-sediment habitats off Israel, Eastern Mediterranean. Zootaxa. 2109: 1-44.
taxonomy source	Larsen, K., & Wilson, G.D.F. (2002). Tanaidacean phylogeny, the first step: the superfamily Paratanaidoidea. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. 40 (4): 205-222.
taxonomy source	Guerrero-Kommritz, J. (2004). A revision of the genus Paraleptognathia Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) and description of four new specie. Zootaxa. 481: 1-63.