Ammothea australiensis Flynn, 1919

Staples, David A., 2007, Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Great Australian Bight, southern Australia, with description of two new species., Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, pp. 95-101 : 95-97

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2007.64.9
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scientific name	Ammothea australiensis Flynn, 1919
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Ammothea australiensis Flynn, 1919 View in CoL

Ammothea australiensis Flynn, 1919: 95–99 View in CoL — Child, 1975: 24

(earlier refs.) — Staples, 1997: 1067; fig. 21.8b.

Material examined. Point Sinclair jetty, amongst Galeolaria tubes, D. Howlett, Jan 1980. SAM E3677 View Materials ( 1 subadult) .

Type locality. Port Jackson , New South Wales .

Distribution. Garden I., WA to Port Jackson, NSW and Tasmania. Intertidally to 10 m depth.

Remarks. This small, subadult specimen possesses dorsal trunk tubercles characteristic of A. australiensis . This is the most common species along the southern Australian coastline, typically collected from beneath stable rocks and in association with the sedentary polychaete Galeolaria caespitosa on which it feeds.