Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Parastenhelia spinosa (Fischer, 1860)

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Species Parastenhelia spinosa (Fischer, 1860)

 

Distribution

States

Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; 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: 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

Oriental Region

  • Andaman Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

In Australia found in algae and seagrass (Heterozostera tasmanica); in the Andaman Islands found among fine to medium sand with a small amount of shell gravel; some of the sand was rich in detritus.

 

Diagnosis

Rostrum triangular, defined at base, extending at most to end of A1 segment 2. A1 8-segmented. A2 exopod 2-segmented, with 6 setae. Maxilliped syncoxa with 2 setae. P1 exopod-2 more than 3 times length of exopod-1or exopod-3; endopod not much longer than exopod; endopod-1 inner seta short and place proximally. Male P1 basis withour modified seta. P2 and P3 endopod shorter than exopod. P2-P4 endopod-3 with 2 plumose setae terminally. male P3 endopod-3 with spine-like projection. Male P5 exopod generally 1-segmented but sometimes 3-segmented. Female genital field without epicopulatory bulb. Armature formulae for swimming legs see table below; (formula follows method of Lang (1934); also see Huys & Boshall (1991));

Exopod- Endopod-

1 2 3 1 2 3

P2 1 1 1.2.3 1 1 1.2.1
P3 0 1 3.2.3 1 1 2.2.1
P4 0 1 3.2.3 1 1 2.2.1

Adult measurements: Females. Mean length 0.61 +/- 0.04 mm (n=11). Males. Mean length 0.45 +/- 0.01 mm (n=4)

 

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 28-Aug-2014 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2010 MODIFIED