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Pseudopontonides Heard 1986

Description

Pseudopontonides Heard, 1986

Pseudopontonides — Heard, 1986:479; Snijders & Fransen, 2010:7.

Diagnosis. Body subcylindical, wider than deep. Rostrum well developed, broadned posteriorly, forming hood over eyestalks. Carapace with antennal spine. Maxillipeds without exopods. 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 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279517

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Pseudopontonides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Heard
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudopontonides Heard, 1986 sec. Vieira, Ferreira & D'Incao, 2012

References

  • 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.
  • Snijders, N. & Fransen, C. H. J. M. (2010) Pseudopontonides plumosus sp. nov., a new cnidarian-associated Pontoniinae shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Curacao. Zootaxa, 2372, 7 - 14.