Species Pseudopontonia minuta (Baker, 1907)
Smooth Prawn
- Pontonia minuta Baker, W.H. 1907. Notes on South Australian Decapod Crustacea. Part V. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31(5): 173-191 pls 23-25 [189 pl. 24 figs 9-12] [gender feminine].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA C625 ♀, South Australia (precise locality not recorded).
Paratype(s) SAMA C625 ♂, South Australia.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Possibly commensal with the polychaete Eunice aphroditois; if so, it is the only pontoniine shrimp known to have an association with an annelid, and the only one known to have abbreviated larval development.
General References
Bruce, A.J. 1972. Notes on some Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae, XVIII. A redescription of Pontonia minuta Baker, 1907, and the occurrence of abbreviated development in the Pontoniinae (Decapoda, Natantia, Palaemonidae). Crustaceana 23(1): 65-75 figs 1-5
History of changes
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