Tanaellidae Larsen & Wilson, 2002

Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N., 2012, The Shallow-water Tanaidacea (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Peracarida) of the Bass Strait, Victoria, Australia (other than the Tanaidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69, pp. 1-235 : 131

Family Tanaellidae Larsen & Wilson, 2002

Remarks. The family Tanaellidae was erected to include four genera, Araphura Bird & Holdich, 1984 ; Araphuroides Sieg, 1986 (a); Arthrura Kudinova-Pasternak, 1966 , and Tanaella Norman & Stebbing, 1886 .

In particular, Araphuroides was split from Araphura by Sieg (1096a) for two species, Araphura brevispina Bird & Holdich, 1984 and Araphuroides parabreviremis Sieg, 1986 . Features distinguishing these two genera have been discussed subsequently and inconsistently (e.g. Sieg & Dojiri, 1989; Larsen, 2005; Larsen et al., 2009). The tanaellid taxa described herein confound this issue further, and their generic attribution is discussed below after their description.