| Tanystoma | |
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| Tanystoma maculicolle, California | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Tribe: | Platynini |
| Genus: | Tanystoma Motschulsky, 1845 |
Tanystoma is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae. They are native to the Pacific Coast of North America from Oregon to Baja California. [1]
Species include:
These five species belong to the genus Tanystoma: [2] [3] [4]
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