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 > Genus Akanthophoreus

Akanthophoreus gracilis (Krøyer, 1842)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Akanthophoreus*	Sieg, 1986	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Leptognathia gracilis*	(Krøyer, 1842)	synonym
*Leptognathia hanseni*	Vanhöffen, 1907	synonym
*Leptognathia sarsi*	Hansen, 1909	synonym
*Tanais gracilis*	Krøyer, 1842	synonym

Literature

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).
new combination reference	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.
taxonomy source	Bird, G.J. (2007). Family incertae cedis. In: Larsen, K., & M. Shimomura (eds.), Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) From Japan III. The Deep Trenches: The Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and Japan Trench. Zootaxa. 1599: 121-149.