Callipallenidae Hilton 1942

Arango, Claudia P. & Brenneis, Georg, 2013, New species of Australian Pseudopallene (Pycnogonida: Callipallenidae) based on live colouration, morphology and DNA, Zootaxa 3616 (5), pp. 401-436 : 411-415

Callipallenidae Hilton 1942

Pseudopallene Wilson 1878

Australian Pseudopallene species—including those reported herein—differ from the type species P. circularis collected from the fjord of Scotland’s Forth River (Firth of Forth), in the ventralized position of the proboscis, which is in some species tapering, and the mostly glabrous body and legs. On the other hand, they share the massive cheliphores, the sometimes irregular, knobby fingers, and some degree of neck constriction (Goodsir 1842; Hedgpeth 1948). A comparison of colouration and some diagnostic characters among species proposed here and other South-Australian Pseudopallene species is presented in Table 3.

…… continued on the next page TABLE 3. (Continued) Body length ~3.3 ~2.3 ~3.3 ~5.3 ~4.2 ~3.5 ~2.6 ~2.8 ~5.6 ~3.5 ~3.4 ~1.9 ~2.5 (mm)

plain Unknown

orange-brown, yellow, or for the yellow with

greyish Tasmanian yellow with

dark red with holotype, red markings,

Live transparent, dark uniformly uniformly specimen with uniformly red marks

bright orange-brown orange-red presumably V-shaped red not reported

colouration red midgut yellow-orange yellow yellow yellow-orange yellow and black

yellow bands yellow or marks on

visible banding tips of

variable trunk

pattern chelae and colouration proboscis