Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Paranymphon Caullery, 1896

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Genus Paranymphon Caullery, 1896

  • Paranymphon Caullery, M. 1896. Résultats scientifiques de la Campagne du "Caudan" dans la Golfe de Gascogne — Pycnogonidés. Annales de l'Université de Lyon 26: 361-364, pl. xii [361].
    Type species:
     Paranymphon spinosum Caullery, 1896 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

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

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Western Australia: Central W coast

Diagnosis

Trunk short, glabrous, lateral processes long, splayed out, with dorsodistal tubercles, long, short or filamentous; proboscis very short, abdomen and ocular tubercle erect, long, chelifore scapes longer than proboscis, chelae fully functional, with teeth; palps 7-segmented; ovigers 10-segmented, short, with terminal claw; legs long, slender, tarsus and propodus curved cylinders, no large heel spines, claw long, no auxiliaries. Cement gland outlets a series of tiny proximal pores.