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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Caridea
Superfamilia: Palaemonoidea

Familia: Palaemonidae
Subfamilia: Pontoniinae
Genus: Allopontonia
Species: A. alastairi – A. brockii

[species after Bruce (2010)]
Name

Allopontonia Bruce, 1972
Gender

feminine
Type species

Allopontonia iaini Bruce, 1972 [=Anchistia brockii De Man, 1888], by original designation

References
cited sources

Bruce, A.J. 1972: Notes on Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae. XIX. Allopontonia iaini gen. nov., sp. nov., a new echinoid associate from Zanzibar (Decapod, Caridea). Crustaceana, 22: 1–12. DOI: 10.1163/156854072X00633 JSTOR
Bruce, A.J. 2010: Allopontonia alastairi sp. nov., a second species of the genus Allopontonia Bruce, 1972 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from the Australian Northwest Shelf. Pp. 33-36 in De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (eds.): Contributions to shrimp taxonomy. Zootaxa, 2372: 1–414. Preview PDF

Additional references

Marin, I.; Türkay, M. 2009: Redescription of Periclimenes brockii (De Man, 1888) (Decapoda: Caridea: Pontoniinae) and other De Man’s type specimens deposited in the collection of the Senckenberg Natural History Museum (SMF), Frankfurt-at-Maine, Germany. Zootaxa, 2296: 39–46. Abstract & excerpt

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Allopontonia is a genus of shrimp in the family Palaemonidae, containing two species:[1][2]

Allopontonia alastairi Bruce, 2010
Allopontonia brockii (de Man, 1888)

References

Charles Fransen & Sammy De Grave (2013). "Allopontonia Bruce, 1972b". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
A. J. Bruce (2010). "Allopontonia alastairi sp. nov., a second species of the genus Allopontonia Bruce, 1972 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae), from the Australian Northwest Shelf" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2372: 33–36.

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