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  Family Tortanidae

Genus Tortanus

    Species T. dextrilobatus -- North America.
    Species T. ampliramus
    Species T. andamanensis
    Species T. angularis
    Species T. barbatus
    Species T. bonjoi
    Species T. bowmani
    Species T. brevipes
    Species T. capensis
    Species T. compernis
    Species T. derjugini
    Species T. digitalis
    Species T. discaudatus
    Species T. ecornatus
    Species T. erabuensis
    Species T. forcipatus
    Species T. giesbrechti
    Species T. gracilis
    Species T. insularis
    Species T. komachi
    Species T. longipes
    Species T. lophus
    Species T. magnonyx
    Species T. murrayi
    Species T. nishidai
    Species T. recticaudus
    Species T. rubidus
    Species T. ryukyuensis
    Species T. scaphus
    Species T. setacaudatus
    Species T. sheni
    Species T. sigmoides
    Species T. sinicus
    Species T. spinicaudatus
    Species T. taiwanicus
    Species T. terminalis
    Species T. tropicus
    Species T. tumidus
    Species T. vermiculus
    Species T. vietnamicus

Taxon Information

The Genus Tortanus is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Tortanus, "Marine or estuarine, cosmopolitan" (Reid & Williamson, 2010).

Bibliography

• Reid, J.W. & C.E. Williamson. 2010. Copepoda. [in] J.H. Thorp & A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition: 829-899.

Web Pages

• World of Copepods