Ovalipes, MOLLERI, RATHBUN, 1898

Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4), pp. 445-522 : 498

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5490612
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scientific name	Ovalipes
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OVALIPES View in CoL ?MOLLERI ( WARD, 1933)

Type locality: South of Montague Island , New South Wales ( Davie, 2002) .

Known range: New Zealand, southern Australia, 150– 270 m ( Poore, 2004); New South Wales, Queensland, Bass Strait, New Zealand ( Davie, 2002).

Occurrence at vents or seeps: Kermadec Ridge (see below).

Material: We are aware of no material from vents or seeps.

Remarks: This species was reported (tentatively, as Ovalipes ? molleri) from the Kermadec Ridge ( New Zealand) vent sites by Clark & O’Shea (2001).

References

Clark MR, O'Shea S. 2001. Hydrothermal vent and seamount fauna from the southern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand. InterRidge News 10 (2): 14 - 17.

Davie PJF. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda - Anomura, Brachyura. In: Wells A, Houston WWK, eds. Zoological catalogue of Australia 19.3 B. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 1 - 641.

Poore GCB. 2004. Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia: A guide to identification. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

Ward M. 1933. New genera and species of marine Decapoda Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. Australian Zoology 7 (5): 377 - 394.