New species and new records of sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from deep waters in Western Australia
Author
Arango, Claudia P.
text
Zootaxa
2009
1977
1
20
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185190
24ca7e3f-75f9-401c-abb1-a914a1c3dc22
1175-5326
185190
Pallenopsis temperans
Stock 1953
Pallenopsis temperans
. —
Stock 1953
: 291
–293, fig. 10; 1954:63, fig.
30g
; 1968: 47.
Material:
AM P702802,
2 males
,
4 females
;
NMV
J54987
,
1male
,
1 female
.
9 December 2005
, Point Cloates, Western
Australia
,
CSIRO
station 135-031, collected by beam trawl from
113.5110°E
22.8487°S
to
113.5140°E
22.8583°S
, soft bottom,
100 m
.
Remarks:
This is a new record for
Australia
and extends the known geographic distribution of the species to the southwest, from the North and Central Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean off WA. The specimens were found within the known bathymetric range (
0.5 to 284 m
) but it had not been recorded from soft bottoms previously. The specimens agree well with the
type
(
Stock 1953
) including the shape of the ocular tubercle, somewhat inclined backwards, and the indistinct segmentation of the chelifore scapes.