| Longiflagrum | |
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| Holotype (♀) of Longiflagrum amphibium. Top: lateral view. Bottom: dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Tanaidacea |
| Family: | Parapseudidae |
| Subfamily: | Parapseudinae |
| Genus: | Longiflagrum Gutu, 1995 |
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Longiflagrum is an estuarine genus of crustacean in the order Tanaidacea.1
Ecology
All five Longiflagrum species occur in shallow coastal habitats such as the intertidal zone, eelgrass beds and estuaries where the salinity fluctuates over the range 5–34 psu,23 and they are a frequent and abundant element of the soft-bottom ecosystem.12
References
References
- Anna Stępień & Magdalena Blazewicz-Paszkowycz (2009). Neil Bruce (ed.). "Advances in the taxonomy and biogeography of Crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere: Longiflagrum amphibium, a new estuarine apseudomorph tanaid (Crustacea, Peracarida) from north-western Australia". ZooKeys (18): 161–170. doi:10.3897/zookeys.18.154.
- Donald F. Boesch (1973). "Three new tanaids (Crustacea, Tanaidacea) from southern Queensland". Pacific Science. 27 (2): 168–188. hdl:10125/792.
- Saowapa Angsupanich (2004). "A new species of Longiflagrum (Tanaidacea, Parapseudidae) from Songkhla Lagoon, Thailand". Crustaceana. 77 (7): 849–860. doi:10.1163/156854004774248726. JSTOR 20105764.