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 Leptocheliidae > Subfamily Leptocheliinae > Genus Mesotanais

Mesotanais elongatus Sieg & Bird, 1989

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesotanais*	Dollfus, 1897	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Sieg, J., & Bird, G. (1989). Remarks on the genus Mesotanais Dollfus, 1897 (Crustacea, Tanaidacea)/ Redescription of the type-species and description of M. elongatus sp. nov. Bulletin du Muséum National d ´Histoire Naturelle (Paris), Ser. 4, Section A, Zoologie, Biologie et Ecologie Animales. 11: 165-182.
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).