Genus Hedgpethia Turpaeva, 1973

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hedgpethia Turpaeva, E.P. 1973. [Pantopoda from the Northeast Pacific Ocean]. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 91: 178-191 figs 1-2 [In Russian].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Macquarie Island Province (24), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Diagnosis

Trunk with posterior swollen segment ridges; proboscis massive, spindle-shaped, distally pointed, or semi-cylindrical and distally rounded or truncate; chelifores completely lacking; palps 10-segmented, long, with tiny distal segments; ovigers 10- segmented, strigilis well developed with rows of compound spines and terminal claw with a serrate lateral edge; legs like Colossendeis.

History of changes