Species Achelia spicata (Hodgson, 1915)

Achelia spicata, from Calman (1910)

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Austrothea spicata Hodgson, T.V. 1915. The Pycnogonida collected by the Gauss in the Antarctic regions, 1901-3; preliminary report. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 141-149 [147].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Antarctica [60° 0' 0" S].
• Achelia intermedia Calman, W.T. 1915. Pycnogonida. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910. Zoology 3: 1-74.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Child, A.C. 1998. Pycnogonida from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 31(1): 1-19

Generic Combinations

• Achelia spicata (Hodgson, 1915). —
  Calman, W.T. 1915. Pycnogonida. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition 1910. Zoology 3: 1-74
  Munilla, T. & Soler Membrives, A. 2008. Check-list of the pycnogonids from Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters: zoogeographic implications. Antarctic Science 21(02)

Distribution

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal.

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