world catalogue and bibliography of the recent pycnogonida

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Distribution: southern oceans.
Depth range: 0-99m.
Achelia assimilis (HASWELL 1875)
1875 Ammothea assimilis HASWELL, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 9: 1026-1027, pl. LIV,
figs. 5-9.
1887 Ammothea Wilsoni SCHIMKEWITSCH, Zool. Anz., 10 (251): 271.
1907 Ammothea Wilsoni, - HODGSON, Rep. natn. Antarct. Exped. 1901-1904, Nat.
Hist., 3: 10-13, fig. 3.
1913 Achelia assimilis, - BOUVIER, Deuxième Expéd. Antarct. Française (1908-
1910), 6: 140.
1920 Achelia assimilis, - FLYNN, Pap. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1919: 87-90, Pl.
87-90, Pl. XXII, figs. 22-26.
1923 Ammothea (Achelia) wilsoni, - LOMAN, Further Zool. Res. Swed. Antarct.
Exped., 1 (2): 25.
1954 Achelia assimilis STOCK, Vidensk. Medd. dansk naturhist. Foren., 116: 97-
100, figs. 45-46 [small and large form].
1954 Achelia variabilis STOCK, Vidensk. Medd. dansk naturhist. Foren., 116: 100-
105, figs. 47-48.
1957 Achelia wilsoni, - STOCK, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 55: 100.
1961 Achelia assimilis, - HEDGPETH, Lunds Univ. Arsskr., N.F., (2) 57 (3): 7-11,
figs. 3-7.
1963 Achelia assimilis, - CLARK, Rec. Austr. Mus., 26 (1): 59.
1963 Achelia variabilis, - CLARK, Rec. Austr. Mus., 26 (1): 59-60.
1968 Achelia variabilis, - STOCK, Vidensk. Medd. dansk naturhist. Foren., 131:
16, fig. 4c.
1969 Achelia (Ignavogriphus) assimilis Fry & Hedgpeth, - N.Z. Oceanogr. Inst.
Mem., 49: 106, figs. 152, 153, 156.
1973 Achelia assimilis, - STOCK, Beaufortia, 20 (266): 106.
1973 Achelia assimilis, - STOCK, Beaufortia, 21 (279): 92.
1975 Achelia assimilis, - CHILD, Smiths. Contr. Zool., 190: 24.
1988 Achelia assimilis, - CHILD, Smiths. Contr. Zool., 468: 2.
1989 Achelia assimilis, - MÜLLER, Bonn. zool. Beitr., 40 (2): 124, figs. 1-2.
1990 Achelia assimilis, - CHILD, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 103 (2): 312.
1990 Achelia assimilis, - GONZALEZ & EDDING, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 103 (1):
151.
1991 Achelia assimilis, - CHILD, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 104 (1): 138.
1992 Achelia assimilis, - MÜLLER, Bonn. zool. Beitr., 43 (1): 155.
Distribution: Widely distributed in tropical and temperate
waters of the southwest Pacific, with some scattered locations
known from Indonesia, Malaysia, French Polynesia and Chile.
Depth range: 0.5-28m.
Habitat: hard bottom; stones; dead corals; red algae.
Achelia australiensis STOCK 1954
1884 Achelia laevis var. australiensis MIERS, Rep. Zool. Coll. in the Indo-Pac.
during Voyage of HMS Alert, 1881-82: 323-324, Pl. XXXV, fig. A.
1891 Ammothea laevis, - SARS, Norw. North-Atl. Exped., 1876-1878, Zool., 6 (3):
124-127, pl. XIII, figs. 2a-m.