Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Amphilochidea > Infraorder Amphilochida > Parvorder Oedicerotidira > Superfamily Oedicerotoidea > Family Oedicerotidae > Genus Pontocrates

Pontocrates arcticus G.O. Sars, 1895

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pontocrates*	Boeck, 1871	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Sars, G.O. (1895). Amphipoda. Parts XXXI & XXXII Appendix. An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. I: I-VIII, 673-711, suppl. pls 1-8. Cammermeyer, Christiania (Oslo).
additional source	Sars, G.O. (1892). Amphipoda. Part XIV. Oediceridae (continued). An account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all the species. I: 297-320, pls 105-112. Cammermeyer, Christiana (Oslo).
redescription	Myers, A. A.; Ashelby, C. W. (2022). A revision of the genus Pontocrates Boeck, 1871 (Amphipoda, Oedicerotidae) with the description of P. moorei sp. nov. and the re-establishment of P. norvegicus (Boeck, 1860). Zootaxa. 5115(4): 582-598.

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Citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Pontocrates arcticus G.O. Sars, 1895. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102917