Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Parastenhelia Thompson & A. Scott, 1903

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Genus Parastenhelia Thompson & A. Scott, 1903

 

Distribution

States

Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan — Norway, British Isles, Woods Hole, Gulf of Guinea, New Zealand and Bermuda; WA, Port Denison; Vic, Port Phillip Bay.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Victoria
    • Western Australia
  • New Zealand

Neotropical Region

  • Bermuda

Oriental Region

  • Andaman Islands

Palaearctic Region

  • Norway

Diagnosis

Female. Body elongate, strong flexure between prosome and urosome. A1 with 7-9 segments, but commonly with 9; A1 segment 4 and terminal segment with an aesthetasc. A2 exopod generally 2-segmented, rarely 3-segmented, with 5-7 setae, proximal seta on exopod-1 miniaturised; Mandible endopod 1-segmented with 7 setae at most; exopod 1-segmented, shorter than endopod and with 4 setae at most. Mx1 basis with 6 setae at most, endopod with 4 setae at most; exopod lost but represented by 3 setae at most. Mx endopod represented by 3 setae at most; praecoxal endite bilobed, each lobe with 2 setae at most. Mxp coxa with 3 setae at most; endopod and claw fused. P1 endopod 2-segmented; endopod-1 elongate; endopod-2 with 2 spines and 1 seta. P1 exopod segments approximately equal or exopod-2 distinctly longer than exopod-1 and exopod-3; exopod-3 with 3 spines and 1 seta. P2 endopod-2 inner margin with 1 seta. P2 endopod-3 with 1 plumose seta and 1 spinose seta terminally and 1 spinose spine subterminally or P2 endopod-3 with 2 plumose seta terminally and 1 spinose spine subterminally. P3 endopod-2 inner margin, with 1 seta; endopod-3 with 2 setae. P4 endopod-2 inner margin with 1 seta. For armature formulae of swimming legs:

Exopod- Endopod-
1 2 3 1 2 3
P2 0-1 1 [1-2].2.3 0-1 1 [0-2].2.1
P3 0-1 1 [2-3].2.3 0-1 1 [0-3].2.1
P4 0-1 1 [2-3].2.3 0-1 1 [0-2].2.1

P5 baseoendopod, endopodal lobe small, triangular, with 5 setae (rarely with 4 setae); exopod elongate, at least twice as long as wide, most commonly with 6 setae (occasionally with 7 or 8). Genital double-somite sometimes with an epicopulatory bulb. Caudal rami, seta I shortened, seta II elongate.

Male-. A1 haplocer, with 7-9 segments. A2 sexually dimorphic in some species where by male exopod-1 has only 1 (well-developed) seta instead of 2 and lateral and 1 terminal seta more highly developed than in female. P2 endopod-2 and -3 sometimes fused. P2 without modified setae. P3 endopod-3 sometimes with modifed spine-like projection. P5 baseoendopod, endopodal lobe with 2 (but occasionally 1) setae; exopod sometimes 3-segmented, usually 1-segmented.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012 26-Jul-2012 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2010 MODIFIED