Pseudopallene watsonae Staples 2005

Arango, Claudia P., 2009, New species and new records of sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from deep waters in Western Australia, Zootaxa 1977, pp. 1-20 : 11-12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185190

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6213232

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scientific name

Pseudopallene watsonae Staples 2005
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Pseudopallene watsonae Staples 2005 View in CoL

Pseudopallene watsonae View in CoL . — Staples 2005:160, fig.2.

Material: NMV J54992 View Materials , 1male, 1 sub-adult. 1 November 2005, Mentelle, Western Australia, CSIRO station 015-120, collected by Sherman sled from 33.9800°S 114.7340°E to 33.9837°S 114.7350°E, soft bottom, 97 m.

Remarks: The specimens agree well with description of the types, except that this male is smaller. The chelae fingers of Pseudopallene watsonae are easily recognisable by the prominent lobes one on each finger. The type locality of the species is Althorpe Is., South Australia, but it had been found before at Port Phillip Bay, Victoria ( Staples, 2005). This record is the deepest for the species and adds the westernmost locality suggesting P. watsonae could be distributed all along the southern Australian coast.

NMV

Museum Victoria

CSIRO

Australian National Fish Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Pycnogonida

Order

Pantopoda

Family

Callipallenidae

Genus

Pseudopallene

Loc

Pseudopallene watsonae Staples 2005

Arango, Claudia P. 2009
2009
Loc

Pseudopallene watsonae

Staples 2005: 160
2005
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