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Genus Pycnogonum Brunnich, 1764

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Genus Pycnogonum Brunnich, 1764

  • Pycnogonum Brunnich, M.T. 1764. Entomologia sistens Insectorum Tabulas Systematicas, cum Introductione et Iconibus. Unknown : Publisher unknown 87 pp. [84].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania


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)

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

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)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Antarctica

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
    • New South Wales
    • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait Islands
    • South Australia
    • Tasmania: Bass Strait
    • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Papua New Guinea

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • California

Taxonomic Notes

Pycnogonum australe is based on a larval form with three pairs of legs and traces of a fourth pair and is not currently identifiable (Clark, 1963).

Stock (1968, p. 60-61) divides the genus Pycnogonum into three subgenera based on the condition of the ovigerous leg in the male: Subgenus Pycnogonum (male ovigerous leg is 8-9 segmented, terminal claw is present); Subgenus Retroviger (male ovigerous leg is 4-7 segmented, terminal claw may or may not be present); Subgenus Nulloviger (male lacks ovigerous legs).