Genus Typton Costa, 1844

Museums

Regional Maps

• Typton Costa, O. 1844. Catalogo di Crostacei raccolti nel golfo di Tarento nella primavera del 1830. Memories di Accademia delle Scienze Napoli 5: 67-74, 3 pls [288] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Typton spongicola Costa, 1844 by monotypy.
• Pontonella Heller, C. 1856. Beitrag zur Fauna der Adria. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien 6: 629-634 pls 1-10 [629] [gender feminine].

  Type species:

   Pontonella glabra Heller, 1856 by monotypy (= Typton spongicola Costa, 1844).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Holthuis, L.B. 1993. The Recent Genera of the Caridean and Stenopodidean Shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda). Alblasserdam : Ridderprint Offsetdrukkerij B.V. 328 pp. [178]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific Oceans, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Bruce, A.J. 1995. A Synopsis of the Indo-West Pacific Genera of the Pontoniinae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Königstein : Koeltz Scientific Books 172 pp. [143]

Bruce, A.J. 2000. Typton manningi and T. capricorniae, new species, new pontoniine shrimps from northern Queensland, with a review of the Indo-West Pacific species of Typton Costa (Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology Spec. No. 2: 87-100 [99] (key to species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jul-2013		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)