Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Parapallene Carpenter, 1892

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Genus Parapallene Carpenter, 1892

  • Parapallene Carpenter, G.H. 1892. Pycnogonida. Reports on the zoological collections made in Torres Straits by Prof. A. C. Haddon, 1888-89. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society 7 5(40): 552-558 [553].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mozambique
  • Somalia
  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
    • New South Wales: SE oceanic
    • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait Islands
    • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast, S oceanic
    • Tasmania: Bass Strait
    • Victoria: Bass Strait, SE oceanic
    • Western Australia: S oceanic, W oceanic
  • East Timor
  • New Caledonia
  • Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
  • Philippines

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Diagnosis

Trunk with long neck and sometimes a "collar", lateral processes short; proboscis cylindrical, often constricted at middle, lips projecting; chelifores scape 1-segmented, chelae usually inflated, fingers short, smooth; palps absent; ovigers 10-segmented in males and females, weak strigilis with few spines, with terminal claw; long legs, with or without auxiliaries.

 

Taxonomic Notes

Stock (1991, p. 191-194) has a key to the species of Parapallene.