WoRMS taxon details
Pontogeneiidae Stebbing, 1906
176946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:176946)
accepted
Family
- Genus Abdia Barnard & Karaman, 1987
- Genus Accedomoera J.L. Barnard, 1964
- Genus Antarctogeneia Thurston, 1974
- Genus Atyloella Schellenberg, 1929
- Genus Awacaris Uéno, 1971
- Genus Bathyschraderia Dahl, 1959
- Genus Bovallia Pfeffer, 1888
- Genus Dautzenbergia Chevreux, 1900
- Genus Djerboa Chevreux, 1906
- Genus Dolobrotus Bowman, 1974
- Genus Eurymera Pfeffer, 1888
- Genus Eusiroides Stebbing, 1888
- Genus Gondogeneia J.L. Barnard, 1972
- Genus Haliogeneia Lowry & Stoddart, 1998
- Genus Inhaca Ortiz, Berze-Freire & Wasikete, 1990
- Genus Liouvillea Chevreux, 1911
- Genus Luckia Bellan-Santini & Thurston, 1996
- Genus Nasageneia Barnard & Karaman, 1987
- Genus Paramoera Miers, 1875
- Genus Paramoerella Ruffo, 1974
- Genus Pleusiroides Ortiz, Lalana & Varela, 2007
- Genus Pontogeneia Boeck, 1871
- Genus Prostebbingia Schellenberg, 1926
- Genus Pseudomoera Schellenberg, 1929
- Genus Pseudopontogeneia Oldevig, 1959
- Genus Ronco J.L. Barnard, 1965
- Genus Rozinante Stebbing, 1894
- Genus Schraderia Pfeffer, 1888
- Genus Tethygeneia J.L. Barnard, 1972
- Genus Aucklandia Walker, 1908 accepted as Paramoera Miers, 1875 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Pontogeneiella Schellenberg, 1929 accepted as Prostebbingia Schellenberg, 1926
- Genus Relictomoera Barnard & Karaman, 1982 accepted as Paramoera Miers, 1875 (junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Stebbingia Pfeffer, 1888 accepted as Paramoera Miers, 1875 (junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Sternomoera Barnard & Karaman, 1982 accepted as Awacaris Uéno, 1971 (junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Stebbing T.R.R. (1906). Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. <em>Das Tiereich.</em> 21, 1-806, 127 figs., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/998303#page/7/mode/1up [details] 
Distribution Cosmopolitan.
Distribution Cosmopolitan. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Pontogeneiidae Stebbing, 1906. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=176946 on 2025-10-14
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Stebbing T.R.R. (1906). Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. <em>Das Tiereich.</em> 21, 1-806, 127 figs., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/998303#page/7/mode/1up [details]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Barnard, J. L.; Karaman, G. S. (1991). The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Part 1. <em>Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement.</em> 13 (1): 1-417., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/barnard-and-karaman-1991-rec-aust-mus-suppl-131-1417
page(s): 286 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 286 [details] Available for editors
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Navarro-Barranco, C.; Martínez, A.; Sempere-Valverde, J.; Chebaane, S.; Digenis, M.; Plaitis, W.; Voultsiadou, E.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2023). Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(12): 1180., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/15/12/1180 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Barnard, J.L. (1964). Revision of Some Families, Genera and Species of Gammaridean Amphipoda. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 7(1): 49-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854064x00263 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bousfield, E.L. & Hendrycks, E.A. (1995). The amphipod superfamily Eusiroidea in the North American Pacific region. I. Family Eusiridae: systematics and distributional ecology. <em>Amphipacifica.</em> 1(4): 3-59.
note: Key to families in the superfamily Eusiroidea, includes Eusiridae, Gammaracanthidae, Pontogeneiidae, Bateidae, Paramphithoidae, Amathillopsidae, Gammarellidae & Calliopiidae. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3610(1): 1-80., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03610p080.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Barnard, J.L. (1964). Revision of Some Families, Genera and Species of Gammaridean Amphipoda. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 7(1): 49-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/156854064x00263 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Bousfield, E.L. & Hendrycks, E.A. (1995). The amphipod superfamily Eusiroidea in the North American Pacific region. I. Family Eusiridae: systematics and distributional ecology. <em>Amphipacifica.</em> 1(4): 3-59.
note: Key to families in the superfamily Eusiroidea, includes Eusiridae, Gammaracanthidae, Pontogeneiidae, Bateidae, Paramphithoidae, Amathillopsidae, Gammarellidae & Calliopiidae. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lowry, J. K.; Myers, A. A. (2013). A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3610(1): 1-80., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/zt03610p080.pdf [details] Available for editors
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Distribution Cosmopolitan. [details]Identification The key in Barnard & Karaman, 1991 (page 286) includes genera currently in the Eusiridae, Calliopiidae and Pontogeneiidae. There is no up-to-date key to the genera within the family Pontogeneiidae. [details]
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| Japanese | アゴナガヨコエビ科 | [details] |
