WoRMS taxon details
Tegastes nanus Sars G.O., 1904
116514 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116514)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sars, G.O. (1904). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts V & VI. Harpacticidae (concluded), Peltidiidae, Tegastidae, Porcellidiidae, Idyidae (part). <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 5:57-80, pls. 33-48. (look up in IMIS) [details] 
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Tegastes nanus Sars G.O., 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116514 on 2025-10-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Sars, G.O. (1904). Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts V & VI. Harpacticidae (concluded), Peltidiidae, Tegastidae, Porcellidiidae, Idyidae (part). <em>An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. Bergen Museum.</em> 5:57-80, pls. 33-48. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Huys, R. (2001). Copepoda - Harpacticoida. <em>In: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds.) European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50:268-280. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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redescription
McAlice, B.J. & W.L. Coffin. (1990). First records of Tegastes falcatus (Norman, 1868) and T. nanus Sars, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the east coast of the United States and a redescription of T. nanus. Journal of Crustacean Biology 10(4):703-707. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Ferrari, F.D., P.V. Rybnikov & H.U. Dahms. (2007). Redescription of Tegastes nanus Sars, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tegastidae) from Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 4(1):1-14. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Ferrari, F.D., P.V. Rybnikov & H.U. Dahms. (2007). Redescription of Tegastes nanus Sars, 1904 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tegastidae) from Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 4(1):1-14. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Kornev, P.N. & E.C. Chertoprud. (2008). Copepod Crustaceans of the Order Harpactiocida of the White Sea. Morphology, Systematics, Ecology. <em>Biology Faculty, Moscow State University. Tovarishchestvo Nauchmikh Izdanii, KMK, Moscow.</em> 370 pp. (Russian). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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