PycnoBase - Safropallene Arnaud & Child, 1988

WoRMS name details

Safropallene Arnaud & Child, 1988

AphiaID

236295 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236295)

Classification

Status

uncertain (Safropallene is distinguished from other genera in the Callipallenidae by its attenuated habitus but significantly also, by the extremely long chelifores, the Nymphon-like ovigers that lack an apophysis on segment 5, long tarsi relative to its congeners)

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Safropallene longimana Arnaud & Child, 1988 (type by original designation)

Parent

Nymphonoidea incertae sedis

Original name

Safropallene longimana Arnaud & Child, 1988

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Species Safropallene longimana Arnaud & Child, 1988

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Arnaud, F.; Child, C.A. (1988). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises, Part 17: Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum. 98: 6. [details]

(of Safropallene longimana Arnaud & Child, 1988) Arnaud, F.; Child, C.A. (1988). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises, Part 17: Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum. 98: 6. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Bamber, R.N.; El Nagar, A.; Arango, C.P.; Sabroux, R. (Eds) (2025). Pycnobase: World Pycnogonida Database. Safropallene Arnaud & Child, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236295 on 2025-05-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-01-10 17:29:40Z

created

Bamber, Roger

2021-05-17 09:55:24Z

changed

Arango, Claudia

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Nomenclature

original description Arnaud, F.; Child, C.A. (1988). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises, Part 17: Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum. 98: 6. [details]

original description (of Safropallene longimana Arnaud & Child, 1988) Arnaud, F.; Child, C.A. (1988). The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises, Part 17: Pycnogonida. Annals of the South African Museum. 98: 6. [details]

basis of record Pycnobase (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Staples, D. (2021). Diagnosis of the new genus Agnathia (Pycnogonida, Callipallenidae) and description of two new species from southern Australia. Zootaxa. 4950(3): 487-500., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4950.3.4
note: Staples 2021 proposed to remove from Callipallenidae and add to ? incertae sedis. The genus is temporarily assigned to Nymphonoidea incertae sedis [details]

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Introduced: alien

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