WoRMS taxon details

Epipontonia spongicola Bruce, 1977

220122  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220122)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Caridea (Infraorder)
  12. Palaemonoidea (Superfamily)
  13. Palaemonidae (Family)
  14. Epipontonia (Genus)
  15. Epipontonia spongicola (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bruce, A.J. (1977). Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, XXIX. <i>Epipontonia spongicola</i> gen. nov., sp. nov., from Wasin Island, Kenya. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 32: 304-315. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Type locality contained in East African Coral Coast  
type locality contained in East African Coral Coast [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Epipontonia spongicola Bruce, 1977. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220122 on 2025-04-15
Date
action
by
1997-04-15 07:05:55Z
created
Onyango, Eunice
2010-09-09 15:15:28Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2022-05-20 09:28:12Z
changed
Fransen, Charles
2022-11-10 12:31:20Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description Bruce, A.J. (1977). Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, XXIX. <i>Epipontonia spongicola</i> gen. nov., sp. nov., from Wasin Island, Kenya. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 32: 304-315. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Bruce, A.J. (1976). A synopsis of the pontoniid shrimp fauna of Central East Africa. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India 16 (2): 462-490 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

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] OpenAccess publication

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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