Genus Pallenopsis Wilson, 1881

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pallenopsis Wilson, E.B. 1881. Report on the Pycnogonida. Reports on the results of dredging...Blake. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 8(12): 239-256.

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), 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

Trunk fully segmented, usually without decoration or tubercles, lateral processes usually short, some with tubercles, anterior pair slightly erect; proboscis usually a short cylinder; scapes of 1 or 2 segments, scape segmentation line sometimes residual, chelae fully chelate, fingers commonly short, placed a right angle to palm, often with serrate edges, usually a setose pad at base of movable finger; palps 1-segmented knobs; ovigers 10-segmented in sometimes 9-segmented in with simple spines, .without 5th apophysis or terminal claw; legs usually long, slender, sometimes heavily setose, tarsus short, propodus well curved, usually with heel spines, almost always with auxiliaries. Cement gland outlet a mid-ventral tube of varying length, sometimes on a swelling.

Systematics

As subgenera Bathypallenopsis and Pallenopsis were previously within Callipallenidae and Phoxichilidiidae families, consecutively. Family Pallenopsidae was resurrected by Bamber, 2004, and the subgenera, Pallenopsis and Bathypallenopsis were raised to full generic status by Bamber 2007.

General References

Arnaud, F. & Bamber, R.N. 1987. The Biology of Pycnogonida. pp. 1-96 in Blaxter, J.H.S. & Southward, A.J. (eds). Advances in Marine Biology. London : Academic Press Vol. 24.

Bamber, R.N. 2004. Pycnogonids (Arthropods: Pycnogonida) from French Cruises to Melanesia. Zootaxa 551: 1-27

Bamber, R.N. 2007. A holistic re-interpretation of the phylogeny of the Pycnogonida Latreille, 1810 (Arthropoda). In, Zhang, Z.-Q & Shear, W.A. (eds): Linnean Tercentenary. Progress in invertebrate taxonomy. Zootaxa 1668: 295-312

Stock, J.H. 1974. Pycnogonida from the continental shelf, slope, and deep-sea of the tropical Atlantic and East Pacific. Biological Results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions, 108. Bulletin of Marine Science 24(4): 957–1092

Stock, J.H. 1978. Abyssal Pycnogonida from the north-eastern Atlantic Basin, part 1. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 19(4): 397-413

History of changes