WoRMS name details
Pontoporeia affinis Lindström, 1855
103078 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103078)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Pontoporeia gurjanovae Birula, 1937 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pontoporeia weltneri Ekman, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Variety Pontoporeia affinis var. microphthalma G.O. Sars, 1896 accepted as Monoporeia microphthalma (Sars, 1896) (unaccepted > superseded rank)
brackish, fresh
Lindstrom, G. (1855). Bidrag till Kännedomen om Östersjöns Invertebrat-Fauna. [Contribution to the Knowledge of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Baltic Sea.]. <em>Öfversigt af Konglige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 12:49-73., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15969747 [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. (2026). World Amphipoda Database. Pontoporeia affinis Lindström, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=103078 on 2026-04-21
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Nomenclature
original description
Lindstrom, G. (1855). Bidrag till Kännedomen om Östersjöns Invertebrat-Fauna. [Contribution to the Knowledge of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Baltic Sea.]. <em>Öfversigt af Konglige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 12:49-73., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15969747 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Bousfield, E. L. (1989). Revised Morphological Relationships Within the Amphipod Genera Pontoporeia and Gammaracanthus and the "Glacial Relict" Significance of their Postglacial Distributions. <em>Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> 46(10), 1714-1725., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/f89-217 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Segerstråle, S.G. 1937. Studien über die Bodentierwelt in südfinnländischen Küstengewässern III. Zur Morphologie und Biologie des Amphipoden Pontoporeia affinis, nebst einer Revision der Pontoporeia-Systematik. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Commentationes Biologicae, 7(1), 183 pp.;19 pls. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
