Genus Nymphon J.C. Fabricius, 1794

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• Nymphon Fabricius, J.C. 1794. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. 1. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 4 472 pp. [417].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Diagnosis

All sizes, all oceans. Trunk fully segmented, lateral processes crowded to very separated, with tubercles (rarely), setae, spines, or glabrous; ocular tubercle at rear of cephalic segment; chelifore scape 1- segmented, chelae fully formed, functional, most with teeth; palps 5-segmented, longer than proboscis; ovigers with strong strigilis, with denticulate spines, terminal claw with teeth; legs all sizes, tarsus from very short to much longer than propodus, propodus usually with large heel spines, some without, claw from very reduced to very long, auxiliaries of all sizes or absent. Cement gland outlet(s) ventral, pores or low truncate cones to a single very large cone (rare).

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) [140] (key to Australian species of Nymphon)

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