WoRMS 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 superseded combination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 through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220184 on 2025-04-05
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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
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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
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
