Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Caridea > Superfamily Crangonoidea > Family Crangonidae

Parapontophilus Christoffersen, 1988

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Parapontophilus abyssi (Smith, 1884)
Parapontophilus gracilis (Smith, 1882)
Parapontophilus talismani (Crosnier & Forest, 1973)

Literature

original description	Christoffersen, M.L., 1988. Genealogy and phylogenetic classification of the world Crangonidae (Crustacea, Caridea), with a new species and new records for the south west Atlantic.— Revista Nordestina de Biologiá 6: 43-59.
basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	De Grave, S. & C.H.J.M. Fransen. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85(9): 30.ix.2011: 195-589 figs 1-59.
additional source	Nomenclator Zoologicus

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Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Parapontophilus Christoffersen, 1988. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107009