Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Ammothella Verrill, 1900

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Genus Ammothella Verrill, 1900

  • Ammothella Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Crustacea and Pycnogonida of the Bermudas. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10 2(15): 580-582 [581].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, 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

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Kenya

Australian Region

  • American Samoa
  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast
    • New South Wales: Central E coast, SE oceanic
    • Northern Territory: Gulf of Carpentaria
    • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE oceanic, SE oceanic
    • Western Australia: Lower W coast, N coastal, W oceanic
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Indonesia
  • Marshall Islands
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Tonga

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • California

Neotropical Region

  • Belize
  • Colombia
  • Galapagos Islands
  • Panama
  • Virgin Islands (USA)

Oriental Region

  • Philippines

Palaearctic Region

  • Italy
    • Italy (Mainland)

Diagnosis

Trunk slender, segmented. Lateral processes well separated, often with tubercles or spines; proboscis ovoid, long; often with tubular (hollow) spines and regular spines; chelifores long, two-segmented scapes, chelae atrophied; palps 9-segmented, long, slender; ovigers 9-segmented, with feathered spines, without strigilis or terminal claw; legs slender, usually with long spines, propodi slender, auxiliaries. Cement gland usually long conspicuous tube.