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Genus Achelia Hodge, 1864

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Genus Achelia Hodge, 1864

  • Achelia Hodge, G. 1864. List of the British Pycnogonida, with descriptions of several new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 13: 113-117 [114].
    Type species (included species):
     Achelia echinata Hodge, 1864; Achelia hispida Hodge, 1864; Achelia laevis Hodge, 1864

 

Distribution

States

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


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)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), 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)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Madagascar
  • Mozambique
  • South Africa

Antarctic Region

Australian Region

  • Antipodean Islands
  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
    • New South Wales: SE oceanic
    • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
    • South Australia: S oceanic
    • Tasmania: SE oceanic, Tas. coast
    • Victoria: SE oceanic
    • Western Australia: S oceanic, W oceanic
  • Australian Antarctic Territory
  • Fiji
  • Guam
  • Indonesia
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Tonga

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • California

Neotropical Region

  • Antigua and Barbados
  • Argentina
  • Belize
  • Chile
    • Tierra del Fuego
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Falkland Islands
  • Panama

Oriental Region

  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Ryukyu Islands (= Nansei Shoto)

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Diagnosis

Trunk circular or discoidal in dorsal view, lateral processes short, touching or narrowly separated distally; proboscis pyriform or inflated near midpoint, with basal constriction sometimes; chelifores scape 1-segmented, chelae atrophied, without fingers; palps 5-8 segments; ovigers 10-segmented; legs short, propodus curved, with heel spines, auxiliaries usually long. Cement gland usually a single dorsodistal pore or tube.