Aroui hamatopodus Lowry & Stoddart, 1989

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Aroui hamatopodus Lowry & Stoddart, 1989 Figure 2

Aroui hamatopodus Lowry & Stoddart, 1989: 114, figs 2-4. - Springthorpe and Lowry 1994: 18. - Lowry and Stoddart 2003: 249. - Berge et al. 2004: 1719 (table 1).

Type material.

Holotype, male, 7.8 mm, AM P.38460. Paratypes: female, 8.0 mm (with oostegites), AM P.38461; 9 specimens, AM P.38462.

Additional Australian material examined.

New South Wales: 9 specimens, AM P.43490 [NSW-945]; 1 specimen, AM P.44276 [NSW-946]; 1825 specimens, AM P.44256 [NSW-944], off Wollongong (34°31.48'S, 151°13.22'E), 200 m, baited trap, 27-28 March 1994, J.K. Lowry & K. Dempsey, MV Robin E; 8 specimens, AM P.44238, off Wollongong (34°31.48'S, 151°13.22'E), 200 m, baited trap, 28-29 March 1994, J.K. Lowry & K. Dempsey, MV Robin E [NSW-962]; 1 specimen, AM P.44452, off Wollongong (34°32.25'S, 151°15.16'E), 300 m, baited trap, 6-7 May 1993, P. Freewater, S.J. Keable & W. Vader, MV Robin E [NSW-783]; 23 specimens, AM P.44426 [NSW-801]; 2 specimens, AM P.44437 [NSW-802], off Wollongong (34°32.53'S, 151°15.0'E), 300 m, baited trap, 7-8 May 1993, P. Freewater, S.J. Keable & W. Vader, MV Robin E; 4 specimens, AM P.47032, off Wollongong (34°32.08'S, 151°12.55'E), 200 m, baited trap, 7-8 May 1993, P. Freewater, S.J. Keable & W. Vader, MV Robin E [NSW-797].

Type locality.

Australia, New South Wales, from stomach of a jackass morwong (tarakihi), Nemadactylus macropterus (Forster, 1801), 73-183 m depth.

Depth range.

73-620 m ( Lowry and Stoddart 1989).

Distribution.

Australia: North-east of Rowley Shoals, Western Australia; Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, to off Wollongong, New South Wales ( Lowry and Stoddart 1989, this study).

Ecology.

Taken in baited traps (this study). Also recorded feeding on dead spatangoids, Taimanawa mortenseni Henderson & Fell, 1969 ( Lowry and Stoddart 1989).