Species Parapallene australiensis (Hoek, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pallene australiensis Hoek, P.P.C. 1881. II.- Report on the Pycnogonida dredged by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. pp. 1-167 in Thomson, C.W. (ed.). Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S Challenger during the years 1873-76, Zoology. Edinburgh : Neill and Company Vol. 3. [76].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, off East Moncoeur Is, Bass Strait [39° 13' 48" S, 146° 31' 48" E]; Off Twofold Bay, Tasman Sea [36° 55' 48" S, 150° 30' 0" E].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: continental shelf, estuary, low intertidal, predator, subtidal.

Taxonomic Notes

Whitelegge (1889) lists a Pallene chiragra Milne Edwards from Port Jackson and from Jervis Bay. According to Clark (1963), the type specimen for P. chiragra has been lost and he considers it likely that P. chiragra had originally been described from a female of Parapallene australiensis.

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