Parapallene Carpenter 1892

Parapallene australiensis (Hoek 1881)

Parapallene australiensis . — Stock 1991: 190 [earlier literature], 194 [key]. — Staples 1997: 1057, fig. 21.4e, pls. 67.2, 68.3.

Material: AM P73035, 1 possibly young male. 20 November 2005, Bunbury, Western Australia, CSIRO station 014-150, collected by Sherman sled from 33.0364°S 114.8200°E to 33.0378°S 114.8130°E, soft bottom, 99m.

Remarks: The morphology of this male agrees well with that of the descriptions in Clark (1963) and Child (1975) including the tiny dorsodistal tubercles on the lateral processes and the position of the abdomen and the coxal spines, but there are only a couple of short setae on each side of the proboscis seen ventrally. This report extends the known Western Australian range north from Cape Naturaliste. Elsewhere known from the southern and eastern Australian coasts to Cape York and New Caledonia at depths 10– 240 m.