Species Pycnoplax meridionalis (Rathbun, 1923)
Type data:
Holotype AM E2233 ♂, 28 km SE of Rame Head, VIC.
Paratype(s) AM E5159 juvenile; AM E6487 2 specimens.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from Australia (WA to NSW, and Tasmania and Tasmanian seamounts), and New Zealand, including Chatham Island. At depth of between 46-1054 m.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)
Distribution References
- Castro, P. 2007. A reappraisal of the family Goneplacidae MacLeay, 1838 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) and revision of the subfamily Goneplacinae, with the description of 10 new genera and 18 new species. Zoosystema 29(4): 609-774 [669-670]
- Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia. A guide to identification (with chapter on Stomatopoda by Shane Ahyong). Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 574 pp. [436]
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, continental slope, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 126–540 m.
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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04-Jun-2012 | 04-Jun-2012 | MOVED | ||
18-Jan-2011 | 18-Jan-2011 | MOVED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |