Species Nymphon molleri Clark, 1963

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nymphon molleri Clark, W.C. 1963. Australian Pycnogonida. Records of the Australian Museum 26(1): 1-81 [10].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, AM G.5173, Shark Is, Tasman Sea [32° 45' 0" S, 152° 12' 0" E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: continental shelf, predator, subtidal.

 

Diagnosis

long neck, terminal claw blunt

 

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) [139] (new record, note)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2022	PYCNOGONIDA Latreille, 1810	07-Mar-2022	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)