Decanet taxon details
Platypontonia brevirostris (Miers, 1884)
220184 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220184)
accepted
Species
Pontonia brevirostris Miers, 1884 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pontonia brevirostris Miers, 1884) Miers, E. J. (1884). Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. Crustacea. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881–2. British Museum (Natural History), London.</em> 513–575, pls. 46–52. [details] 
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Platypontonia brevirostris (Miers, 1884). Accessed at: https://decanet.info/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220184 on 2025-09-12
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(of Pontonia brevirostris Miers, 1884) Miers, E. J. (1884). Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. Crustacea. <em>Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881–2. British Museum (Natural History), London.</em> 513–575, pls. 46–52. [details]
basis of record Bruce, A.J. (1976). A report on some pontoniid shrimps collected from the Seychelles Islands by the F.R.V. Manihine, 1972, with a review of the Seychelles pontoniid shrimp fauna. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 59: 89-153. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Bruce, A.J. (1976). A report on some pontoniid shrimps collected from the Seychelles Islands by the F.R.V. Manihine, 1972, with a review of the Seychelles pontoniid shrimp fauna. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 59: 89-153. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source De Grave, S.; Fransen, C.H.J.M. (2011). Carideorum catalogus: the recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda). <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 85(9): 195-589. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality