Genus Propallene Schimkewitsch, 1909

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• Propallene Schimkewitsch, W. 1909. Nochmals uber die Periodicitat in dem Systemder Pantopoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 34(1): 1-13 [11].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Diagnosis

Proboscis cylindrical; chelifore scape 1-segmented, chelae normal, denticulate; palp 2-segmented, in c/1 only, non-functional; ovigers 10-segmented, in both sexes, 5th segment apophysis in weak strigilis with denticulate spines, without terminal claw; legs typical, tarsus short, propodus sometimes with larger crenulate heel spines, auxiliaries absent. Cement gland openings 5-22 short ventral ducts in femur & sometimes extend to tibiae 1 and 2.

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