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<I>Ammothea ovatoides</I>, from Stock (1973)

Ammothea ovatoides, from Stock (1973)

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Species Ammothea ovatoides Stock, 1973

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2022 PYCNOGONIDA Latreille, 1810 24-Feb-2022 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)