Genus Stylopallene Clark, 1963

Stylopallene cheilorhynchus

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Stylopallene Clark, W.C. 1963. Australian Pycnogonida. Records of the Australian Museum 26(1): 1-81 [35].

  Type species:

   Stylopallene cheilorhynchus Clark, 1963 by original designation.
• Siphopallene Stock, J.H. 1968. Pycnogonida collected by the Galathea and Anton Bruun in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 131: 7-65.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Diagnosis

Trunk oval, robust, completely segmented, lateral processes almost touching; proboscis with broad base, tapering to narrow tubular mouth with tiny lips; scapes 1-segmented, chelae normal, linear fingers plain; palps absent; ovigers 10-segmented, in both sexes, with 5th segment apophysis, weak strigilis, denticulate spines, with terminal claw; legs typical, propodus with strong heel, & spines, without auxiliary claws.

General References

Staples, D.A. 2014. A reassessment of the pycnogonid genus Stylopallene (Arthropoda, Callipallenidae) with description of a new genus. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72: 121–129

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