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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF91FFB42673135BF1247A89" bold="true" box="[603,788,361,385]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">Achelia assimilis</emphasis>
(Haswell, 1884)
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<paragraph id="791D3687FF91FFB426CA13B8F17B7AAA" blockId="6.[313,1268,394,531]" box="[738,843,394,418]" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">(figure 2)</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF91FFB42511139EF0317AC9" box="[313,513,428,449]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">Ammothea assimilis</emphasis>
Haswell, 1884: 10261027
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, pl. 55, figures 59; Loman, 1908: 5960.
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: Flynn, 1919a: 8970
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, pl. 22, figure 2226; Stock, 1954: 97100, figures 45, 46; 1994: 3233, figure 9 (literature); Child, 1977: 440441; 1988a: 289290; 1988b: 2; 1991: 138; 1996b: 541; Bamber, 2000: 621.
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Turtle Bay, collected among
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, one post-larva (coll. Otto);
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. Coral Sea, Flinders Reef, amongst washings of algae,
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, one
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sp.
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and
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sp.
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,
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,
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.,
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(coll. Diaz-Pulido).
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Trunk length 1.0
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, width across second crurigers
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, third line of segmentation not clear, smooth, disc-shaped, crurigers touching; abdomen swollen at the base then curved upwards in the distal half. Anterior and posterior corners of the crurigers armed with one spine bearing a tubercle each. Three dorsodistal spines on scape. Palps eight-segmented, last segment twice as long as wide. Ovigers 10-segmented, fifth segment the longest, spines in the formula 2:2:2:2. Legs robust, short, first and second coxae of all legs with two pairs of spiny tubercles, femur and tibiae sub-equal in length, auxiliary claws threequarters length of the main claw. Cement gland a dorsodistal tube on mid-femur. Female: same as male but larger, femora swollen in adults and spines less strong and conspicuous. This species is known to be highly variable in diagnostic characters so an illustration of one of the specimens found is provided (figure 2).
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF91FFB4254917B7F3DE7E95" box="[353,494,1413,1437]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">Distribution.</emphasis>
Described from Port Jackson in
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,
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, reported from
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(Child, 1975) and more recently from Heron Island and Lizard Island in the southern and northern sections of the Great Barrier Reef, respectively (Child, 1990). The records from Townsville and nearby areas suggest a possible continuous distribution of the species in diverse shallow-water habitats of the GBR and perhaps the east coast of
<collectingCountry id="01B57617FF91FFB4270F141AF1A47D48" box="[807,916,1576,1600]" name="Australia" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">Australia</collectingCountry>
.
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF91FFB4278C141AF6527D48" box="[932,1122,1576,1600]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">Achelia assimilis</emphasis>
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is mostly a southern hemisphere species. Records exist from
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,
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,
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and
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. A corridor of distribution is suggested from
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to
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to
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,
<collectingCountry id="01B57617FF91FFB4264F14B8F0E67DAA" box="[615,726,1674,1698]" name="Indonesia" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">Indonesia</collectingCountry>
and the
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which is the most northern location in the Pacific from where
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF91FFB426E01499F1797DCA" box="[712,841,1706,1730]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="2728">A. assimilis</emphasis>
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has been collected.
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F. 2.
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF90FFB525BD17EDF00E7EFC" box="[405,574,1503,1524]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="2729">Achelia assimilis</emphasis>
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;
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. (A) Dorsal view; (B) palp; scale bar=0.1 mm; (C) third leg; 0.5 mm; (D) terminal segments of the oviger with simple and denticulate spines; 0.02 mm.
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF90FFB525491479F3FC7D6B" box="[353,460,1611,1635]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="2729">Remarks.</emphasis>
The genus
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF90FFB526481479F0837D6B" box="[608,691,1611,1635]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="2729">Achelia</emphasis>
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appears to be an artificial grouping of species with high intraspecific variation in their morphological characters. It is in strong need of revision, being a genus with a worldwide distribution and of relatively high abundance especially in littoral zones. Two forms of
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF90FFB527BE1499F6257DCA" box="[918,1045,1706,1730]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="2729">A. assimilis</emphasis>
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described by Stock (1954) exemplify the enormous variability of assumed species. These specimens agree with the description of the large form but they are definitely smaller than those described (Stock, 1954).
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF9FFFBA267A12DDF1397A0F" box="[594,777,239,263]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="2730">Achelia assimilis</emphasis>
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was predominantly found among intertidal tufts of
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<emphasis id="4BD6EA95FF9FFFBA25BD133DF04D7A2F" box="[405,637,271,295]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="2730">Cladophora prolifera</emphasis>
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, being relatively abundant. It also occurs in coral reefs but in lower numbers.
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