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pontoniine

pontoniine noun: any shrimp of the subfamily Pontoniinae.

Noun

pontoniine (plural pontoniines)

  1. Any shrimp of the subfamily Pontoniinae.
    • Of course, concomitant with the rich bauplan diversity of pontoniine and palaemonine taxa, more variation exists than herein illustrated.2015, Sammy De Grave et al., “Let’s be pals again: major systematic changes in Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda)”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    pontoniid

Synonyms of pontoniine

Forms of pontoniine

pluralpontoniines

Questions about pontoniine

What does pontoniine mean?
Pontoniine means any shrimp of the subfamily Pontoniinae.
What part of speech is pontoniine?
Pontoniine is a noun.
What is the plural of pontoniine?
The plural of pontoniine is pontoniines.

Words near pontoniine in the dictionary

  1. pontoneers
  2. pontonier
  3. pontoniers
  4. pontoniid
  5. pontoniids
  6. pontoniine
  7. pontoniines
  8. pontonnier
  9. pontonniers
  10. pontons
  11. pontoon

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