Genus Parapallene Carpenter, 1892

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parapallene Carpenter, G.H. 1892. Pycnogonida. Reports on the zoological collections made in Torres Straits by Prof. A. C. Haddon, 1888-89. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 7 5(40): 552-558 [553].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), 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

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Diagnosis

Trunk with long neck and sometimes a "collar", lateral processes short; proboscis cylindrical, often constricted at middle, lips projecting; chelifores scape 1-segmented, chelae usually inflated, fingers short, smooth; palps absent; ovigers 10-segmented in males and females, weak strigilis with few spines, with terminal claw; long legs, with or without auxiliaries.

Taxonomic Notes

Stock (1991, p. 191-194) has a key to the species of Parapallene.

History of changes