Species Pallenella dubia (Clark, 1963)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudopallene dubia Clark, W.C. 1963. Australian Pycnogonida. Records of the Australian Museum 26(1): 1-81 [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P.13631 ♀, Port Arthur, TAS.
  Status unknown, AM P.13632 4♀, same as holotype; AM P.13633 2♀, same as holotype.
• Spasmopallene clarki Stock, J.H. 1968. Pycnogonida collected by the Galathea and Anton Bruun in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 131: 7-65.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bamber, R.N. 2005. Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Recherche Archipelago, Esperence, Western Australia, Australia. pp. 325-341 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I. & Kendrick, G.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Esperance, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum.

Generic Combinations

• Pseudopallene clarki (Stock, 1968). —
  Staples, D.A. 2014. A revision of the callipallenid genus Pseudopallene Wilson, 1878 (Pycnogonida, Callipallenidae). Zootaxa 3765(4): 339-359
• Pallenella dubia (Clark, 1963). —
  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 dubia (Clark, 1963). —
  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

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: continental shelf.

History of changes