Species Ammothea ovatoides Stock, 1973

Ammothea ovatoides, from Stock (1973)

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Regional Maps

• Ammothea ovatoides Stock, J.H. 1973. Pycnogonida from south-eastern Australia. Beaufortia 20(266): 99-127 [102].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA, West Island, South Indian Ocean. [35° 37' 48" S, 138° 34' 48" E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: subtidal.

Diagnosis

Chelifores with no rudiment of chelae (diagnosis of subgenus); palp distal segmentes serrate, or with ventral expansions; distorted ovigers, elongated oval shape of proboscis (also in hilgendorfi) lateral processes with one or two distal spines

Taxonomic Notes

Stock (1973A) placed Ammothea ovatoides into a new subgenus Lecythorhynchus and placed Ammothea australiensis into another new subgenus Ammothea.

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