| Réf. Princ. | Child, C.A., 1998 |
| Ressemble à |
| Organes spécialisés | |
| Apparence différente | |
| Couleurs différentes | |
| Remarques |
| Éléments remarquables | |
| Profil du corps | |
| Section transverse | |
| Profil dorsal de la tête | |
| Type d'yeux | |
| Type de bouche/museau | |
| Position de la bouche | |
| Diagnose | Leg span: 2 - 3 cm, a tall ocular tubercle with prominent eyes, and closely crowded lateral processes which usually, along with the trunk, have long dorsal spines. Spines are also carried on the chelifore scape and in rows along the leg. It has a short neck, crowded with a bulbous oviger base on each side. The male ovigers have distally inflated fifth and sixth segments which are often collapsed. The tarsus, with strong distal spines, is usually as long as or longer than the propodus which has a short main claw and vestigial or missing auxiliary claws. A wide range of variations occur among the many specimens of this species. This is attested to by its several synonyms. This is the genotype of a group of 20 predominantly Antarctic species which belong to a discrete assemblage called the australe group (Ref. 156). It shares the diagnostic characters enumerated above with the others and forms one of the groups into which this cumbersome genus must be divided if any sense is to be made of trying to separate its multitude of species (Ref. 9). |
| Facilité d'identification |
| Lignes latérales | Interrompu(e)(s): No |
| Écailles sur la ligne latérale | |
| Écailles perforées de la ligne latérale | |
| Écailles en série latérale | |
| Rangées d'écailles au-dessus de la ligne latérale | |
| Rangées d'écailles au-dessus de la ligne latérale | |
| Écailles autour du pédoncule caudal | |
| Barbillons | |
| Fentes branchiales (requins et raies uniquement) | |
| Branchiospines | |
| sur le membre inférieur | |
| sur le membre supérieur | |
| Total | |
| Vertèbres | |
| préanal(e) | |
| Total |
| Attributs | |
| Nombre de nageoires | |
| Nombre de pinnules | dorsale |
| Ventral | |
| Total d'épines | |
| Total de rayons mous | |
| Nageoire adipeuse |
| Attributs |
| Nombre de nageoires | |
| Total d'épines | |
| Total de rayons mous |
| Pectorale(s) | Attributs |
| Épines | |
| Rayons mous | |
| Pelvienne(s) | Attributs |
| position | |
| Épines | |
| Rayons mous |