Species Pallenella brevicephala (Staples, 2008)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudopallene brevicephala Staples, D.A. 2008. Investigator Group Expedition 2006: Pycnogonida. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132: 125-133 [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA E3647 ♂ (on bryozoan), Investigator Group, Topgallant Island, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA E3655 10 juveniles, taken with holotype.

Generic Combinations

• Pallenella brevicephala (Staples, 2008). —
  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 brevicephala (Staples, 2008). —
  Staples, D.A. 2014. A revision of the callipallenid genus Pseudopallene Wilson, 1878 (Pycnogonida, Callipallenidae). Zootaxa 3765(4): 339-359

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

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 [418-419]

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