Genus Parapontophilus Christofferson, 1988

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• Parapontophilus Christofferson, M.L. 1988. Genealogy and phylogenetic classification of the world Crangonidae (Crustacea, Caridea), with a new species and new records of the south western Atlantic. Revista Nordestina de Biologia 6(1): 43-59, illustrated [46, 48].

  Type species:

   Pontophilus gracilis Smith, 1882 by original designation.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CRANGONIDAE: Parapontophilus abyssi (Smith, 1884) [apparently mistakenly recorded from NE Queensland by Davie (2002) (under P. gracilis abyssi). Komai (2008), in his revision, found no verified records from the Pacific, and considered the distribution of this species to be restricted to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, but with no Australian records cited] — Komai, T. 2008. A world-wide review of species of the deepwater crangoid genus Parapontophilus Christoffersen, 1988 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea), with descriptions of ten new species. Zoosystema 30(2): 261-332 [277-279]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

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