Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Veleronia laevifrons Holthuis, 1951 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution: (Veleronia l.) Galapagos Islands in Isabela and Fernandina (De Ridder. C, 1980)

• De Ridder, C. (1980) Étude des populations de deux espèces de Veleronia (Décapodes, Pontoniinae) associées aux gorgonacea (Cnidaria, Octocorallia) de l'Archipel des Galapagos. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 21: 181-199.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
• Wicksten, M.K. (1991) Caridean and stenopodid shrimp of the Galápagos Islands. In: M.J. James (ed): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates; Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin´s Islands. Plenum Press, New York, London, p. 147-156.