Pisidia longimana, author: Pillon, Roberto
Atyopsis spinipes
author: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program

DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS taxon details

Parapontophilus occidentalis (Faxon, 1893)

515608  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:515608)

  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. Crangonoidea (Superfamily)
  13. Crangonidae (Family)
  14. Parapontophilus (Genus)
  15. Parapontophilus occidentalis (Species)
accepted
Species
Pontophilus occidentalis Faxon, 1893 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pontophilus occidentalis Faxon, 1893) Faxon, W. (1893). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 24(7): 149-220. [details] OpenAccess publication
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Parapontophilus occidentalis (Faxon, 1893). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=515608 on 2025-04-05
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2010-09-09 14:00:27Z
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De Grave, Sammy
2022-02-20 17:37:22Z
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De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

original description (of Pontophilus occidentalis Faxon, 1893) Faxon, W. (1893). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer ”Albatross”, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. VI. Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 24(7): 149-220. [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record 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

Other

context source (CCZ) Christodoulou, M.; De Grave, S.; Vink, Α.; Martinez Arbizu, P. (2022). Taxonomic assessment of deep-sea decapod crustaceans collected from polymetallic nodule fields of the East Pacific Ocean using an integrative approach. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 52(6)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-022-01284-2 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

context source (PeRMS) Moscoso, V. (2012). Catálogo de crustáceos decápodos y estomatópodos del Perú. <em>Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú.</em> 27(1-2): 8-207., available online at https://repositorio.imarpe.gob.pe/handle/20.500.12958/2190 [details] 

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

    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Pontophilus occidentalis Faxon, 1893)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Parapontophilus occidentalis) 
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Pontophilus occidentalis Faxon, 1893)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 4 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (5 records) (from synonym Pontophilus occidentalis Faxon, 1893)