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Neopontonides Holthuis 1951

Description

Neopontonides Holthuis, 1951

Neopontonides — Holthuis, 1951:189; Chace, 1972:25; Heard, 1986:471; Fransen & Almeida, 2009:838.

Diagonis. Rostrum well developed, with or without teeth (ventral teeth never present), reaching beyond basal segment of antennular peduncle. Antennal espine present, supraorbital, epigastric and hepatic teeth absent. Mandible without palp. First maxilliped has exopod with a caridean lobe. Second and third maxillipeds without expods. Second pereopods are strong. Third to fifith pereopods with simple dactyli. Telson with 2 pairs of dorsal spines and 3 pairs of spines on posterior margin.

Notes

Published as part of Vieira, Rony R. R., Ferreira, Rodrigo S. & D'Incao, Fernando, 2012, Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) from Brazil with taxonomic key, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 3149 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279517

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Neopontonides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Holthuis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Neopontonides Holthuis, 1951 sec. Vieira, Ferreira & D'Incao, 2012

References

  • Holthuis, L. B. (1951) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas. I. The subfamilies Euryrhynchinae and Pontoniinae. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 11, 1 - 332.
  • Chace Jr, F. A. (1972) The shrimps of the Smithsonian Caribbean Expeditions with a summary of the west Indian shallowwaters species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Natantia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 98, 1 - 179.
  • Heard, R. W. (1986) Pontoniinae shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) of the Northwest Atlantic. I. The genus Neopontonides Holthuis, 1951, with the description of N. chacei, new species, and the erection of Pseudopontonides, new genus, to receive N. principis Criales, 1980. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 6 (3), 471 - 484.
  • Fransen, C. H. J. M. & Almeida, A. O. (2009) Neopontonides brucei, a new Pontoniinae species from Brazilian waters (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana, 82 (7), 837 - 846.