Whiteleggia multicarinata (Whitelegge, 1901)

Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, M. & Bamber, R. N., 2007, New apseudomorph tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from eastern Australia: Apseudidae, Whiteleggiidae, Metapseudidae and Pagurapseudidae, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, pp. 107-148 : 132

Whiteleggia multicarinata (Whitelegge, 1901)

Apseudes multicarinata . Whitelegge, 1901: 203, 204–208 Whiteleggia multicarinata . Lang, 1970, 605–615, figs 3–8.

Material: 19 females, 8 males ( NVM J55755 ). Australia, Tasmania, central Bass Strait, 20 km NNE of North Point, Flinders I. (40°38'S, 145°23'E), 37 m, 04/11/1980, ( BSS 117 ), M.F. Gomon and G.C.B. Poore ; 33 females, 17 males ( NVM J47123 eastern Bass Strait, 63 km E of North Point, Flinders I. (39°44.48'S, 148°40.36'E), 124 m, 14/11/1981, ( BSS 167 ), R.S. Wilson ; 2 males, 1 female ( NVM J53139 ), eastern Bass Strait, 63 km E of North Point, Flinders I. (39°44.48'S, 148°40.36'E), 124 m, 14/11/1981, ( BSS 167 ), R.S. Wilson .

Remarks. The only previous published records of this species are of the type material, off New South Wales, Australia, at 37 to 108 m depth, and further specimens described by Lang (1970) from Dr Th. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition in 1914. Lang (1970) cited the sampling site as off South Africa (35°05'S 15°05'E), but those coordinates are a misprint: the sampling on that date was from the Endeavour, at 37°05'S 150°05'E, on sand and mud in depths of 70 to 100 m, i.e. off Merimbula, New South Wales (see numerous references to the sample site in, for example, Augener, 1924). Thus, reassuringly, all records of this species are from off south-easternAustralia. The present material extends the range further south and west, and into slightly deeper water. Much of the present material was collected together with the following species; distinction of the females is particularly difficult, the only reliable feature being the short peduncular articles of the antenna in Pseudowhiteleggia typica .