CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Pycnogonida (class) » Pantopoda (order) » Callipallenidae (family)

CAAB Code:	33 011040 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pallenella watsonae Staples, 2005
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	33 - Tardigrada, Pentastomida, Pycnogonida plus minor Arthropod groups minor invertebrate phyla plus scorpions, spiders, sea spiders, horseshoe crabs
Family:	33 11 Callipallenidae (pycnogonids) - show full list
Common Name:	[a pycnogonid]
Organism Type:	a pycnogonid
Synonyms:	Pseudopallene ambigua (mis-identification) Pseudopallene watsonae Meridionale watsonae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	33 011910 Pallenella spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:

This species was previously confused with Pseudopallene ambigua Stock, 1956.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9520f7c4-3044-4cd4-bae8-86f52153ad31 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	100494
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:239550 Name status: unaccepted Checked on: 2019-09-03 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Staples, D.A., 2005. Pycnogonida from the Althorpe Islands, South Australia., Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. 129(2): 158-169.
Scientific Name verified against:	Brenneis, G., Arango, C.P., Sharma, P.P., Schwentner, M., 2020. The more the merrier: unparalleled sympatric species richness in a sea spider genus (Pycnogonida: Callipellenidae: Pallenella) from Tasmanian waters., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 34: 837-870. . doi.org/10.1071/IS20022 doi:10.1071/IS20022

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