Species Ascorhynchus longicollis (Haswell, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ammothea longicollis Haswell, W.A. 1884. On the Pycnogonida of the Australian coast, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1021-1034 [1028].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, Tasman Sea [33° 51' 0" S, 151° 15' 0" E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

South Eastern Coasts

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: intertidal, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

 

Taxonomic Notes

Originally placed in the genus Ammothea by Haswell (1884). Whitelegge (1889) listed this species as Ammothea longicollis in his list of fauna from Port Jackson. Staples (1997A) spells the species name as longicolle.

 

General References

Bamber, R.N. 2008. Sea-spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) of Moreton Bay, Queensland. pp. 131-142 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(1) [133] (new records, notes)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2022	PYCNOGONIDA Latreille, 1810	01-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)