Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Great Australian Bight, southern Australia, with description of two new species.
Author
Staples, David A.
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2007
2007-12-31
64
95
101
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-64-2007/pages-95-101/
journal article
10.24199/j.mmv.2007.64.9
1447-2554
12211044
Pseudopallene watsonae
Staples, 2005
Staples 2005: 160–164
, fig. 2A–I.
Western Australia
,
King George Sound
,
N of False Bay
, on red algae, bryozoa from rock face,
27 m
,
SCUBA
,
G. C. B. Poore
and
H. M. Lew Ton
,
15 Apr 1984
(Stn SWA 57)
NMV
J45348
(
1 female
)
.
Type
locality.
Althorpe I.
,
South Australia
.
Distribution
. King George Sound,
Western Australia
; Althorpe I.,
South Australia
; Port Phillip Bay,
Victoria
.
Remarks.
The shape of the chelifore fingers is the most recognizable character separating this species from its congeners. Specimens are uniformly yellow in life. This is a much smaller and finer species than the similarly coloured
P. ambigua
.