Pseudopontonides

Life-forms

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

Familia: Palaemonidae
Subfamilia: Pontoniinae
Genus: Pseudopontonides
Species: P. plumosus – P. principis

[species after Snijders & Fransen (2010)]
Name

Pseudopontonides Heard, 1986
Gender

masculine
Type species

Neopontonides principis Criales, 1980, by original designation

References
cited sources

Criales, M.M. 1980: Commensal caridean shrimps of Octocorallia and Antipatharia in Curaçao and Bonaire with description of a new species of Neopontonides. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean islands, (188 ): 68–85. PDF
Heard, R.W. 1986: Pontoniine 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: 471–484. PDF JSTOR
Snijders, N.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. 2010: Pseudopontonides plumosus sp. nov., a new cnidarian-associated pontoniine shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae) from Curaçao. Pp. 7-14 in De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (eds.) Contributions to shrimp taxonomy. Zootaxa, 2372: 1–414. Preview PDF

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