Species Pallenella pachycheira (Haswell, 1884)

Parapallene challengeri. P72800 from WA CSIRO samples in Arango 2008.

© Copyright C. Arango. Queensland Museum.

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pallene pachycheira 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 [1030].

  Type data:

   Holotype (presumed holotype), Port Jackson, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Pseudopallene pachycheira (Haswell, 1884). —
  Flynn, T.T. 1919. A re-examination of Professor Haswell's types of Australian Pycnogonida. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1919: 70-92
• Pallenella pachycheira (Haswell, 1884). —
  Brenneis, G., Arango, C.P., Sharma, P.P. & Schwentner, M. 2020. The more the merrier: unparalleled sympatric species richness in a sea spider genus (Pycnogonida : Callipallenidae : Pallenella) from Tasmanian waters. Invertebrate Systematics 34(8): 837–870
• Meridionale pachycheira (Haswell, 1884). —
  Staples, D.A. 2014. A revision of the callipallenid genus Pseudopallene Wilson, 1878 (Pycnogonida, Callipallenidae). Zootaxa 3765(4): 339-359

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: continental shelf, subtidal.

Marine.

General References

Arango, C.P. & Brenneis, G. 2013. New species of Australian Pseudopallene (Pycnogonida: Callipallenidae) based on live colouration, morphology and DNA. Zootaxa 3616(5): 401–436 [420]

History of changes