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Pontonia Latreille 1829

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Pontonia Latreille, 1829

Pontonia Latreille, 1829: 96; Holthuis, 1951a:115; Fransen, 2002: 69.

Diagnosis: Carapace, rostrum with one small subdistal dorsal tooth, with developed lateral carina, without dorsal carina; antennal spine distinctly separated from carapace margin, acute. Stylocerite small; Scaphocerite with distal tooth less than 0.1 of his length. Mandible without palp, with molar and incisor processes. Pereopods 3–5 dactyls with inner margin without tubercles, and a patch of distal scales. Telson with distal pair of dorsolateral cuspidate setae in his distal third (modified from Fransen, 2002).

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Published as part of Cardoso, Irene, 2006, Caridea (Crustacea, Decapoda) collected on the Brazilian (13 / 22 S) continental shelf and slope, pp. 1-44 in Zootaxa 1364 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174755

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Biodiversity

Family
Palaemonidae
Genus
Pontonia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Decapoda
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Latreille
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pontonia Latreille, 1829 sec. Cardoso, 2006

References

  • Latreille, P. A. (1829) Crustaces, Arachnides et partie des insects. In G. Guvier (ed.). Le regne animal distibue d´apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l´histoire naturelle des animaux et d´introduction a l´anatomie comparee, 4, 584 p.
  • Holthuis, L. B. (1951 a) A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea Decapoda Natantia) of the Americas, I: The Subfamilies Euryrhynchinae and Pontoniinae. Allan Hancock Foundation Publications, Occasional Papers, Los Angeles, 11, 1 - 332.
  • Fransen, C. H. (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny, historical biogeography, and historical ecology of the genus Pontonia Latreille (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 336, 1 - 433.