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

Pontoniinae Kingsley, 1879

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ascidonia Fransen, 2002
Balssia Kemp, 1922
Cuapetes Clark, 1919
Palaemonella Dana, 1852a
Periclimenes O.G. Costa, 1844a
Pontonia Latreille, 1829
Tuleariocaris Hipeau-Jacquotte, 1965
Typton O.G. Costa, 1844a

Literature

original description	Kingsley, J.S., 1879. List of the North American Crustacea belonging to the suborder Caridea.— Bulletin of the Essex Institute 10 [for 1878]: 53-71.
basis of record	d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N [Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N]. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp.
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.

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Citation

Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2014). Pontoniinae Kingsley, 1879. 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:148530