Apseudidae is a family of
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s belonging to the order
Tanaidacea
The crustacean order Tanaidacea (known as tanaids) make up a minor group within the class Malacostraca. There are about 940 species in this order.
Description
Tanaids are small, shrimp-like creatures ranging from in adult size, with most specie ...
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Genera
Genera:
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Apseudes
In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides ( ; grc, Νηρηΐδες, Nērēḯdes; , also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters ...
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Leach, 1814
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Apseudopsis
''Apseudopsis'' is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the family Apseudidae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of t ...
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Norman, 1899
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Atlantapseudes''
Bacescu, 1978
References
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Tanaidacea
Crustacean families