Species Anoplodactylus tubiferus (Haswell, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phoxichilidium tubiferum 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 [1032].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, Tasman Sea [33° 51' 0" S, 151° 15' 0" E].
• Anoplodactylus pulcher Carpenter, G.H. 1907. Pycnogonida collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1907: 11 [11].
• Anoplodactylus stylops Loman, J.C.C. 1908. Die Pantopoden der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga Expeditie Monographie. Leiden : E. J. Brill Vol. 40 pp. 1-88.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Staples, D.A. 1982. Pycnogonida of the Calliope River & Auckland Creek, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20(3): 455-471

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Common in the Indo-West Pacific (Stock 1994: 67). Afrotropical Region - Madagascar, Australian Region - Indonesia, Australia: 200 m bathymetric (Lower W coast), Oriental Region - India, Maldives, Palaearctic Region - Iran.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: continental shelf, coral reef, estuary, subtidal.

 

General

Whitelegge (1889) listsa Phoxichilidium tubiferum Haswell, 1884 from Port Jackson. This species is now known as Anoplodactylus tubiferus (Haswell, 1884).

Staples (1982) synonymizes Anoplodactylus pulcher with Anoplodactylus tubiferus, but provides no evidence on which to base this change.

 

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) [138] (new records, notes)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2022	PYCNOGONIDA Latreille, 1810	09-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)