Colossendeidae is a

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sea spider Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the order Pantopoda ( ‘all feet’), belonging to the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (; named after ''Pycnogonum'', the type genus; with the suffix '). They are cosmopolitan, fou ...

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Pycnogonida Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the order Pantopoda ( ‘all feet’), belonging to the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (; named after ''Pycnogonum'', the type genus; with the suffix '). They are cosmopolitan, fou ...

). Like most sea spiders, all species in this family have four pairs of legs, except for three species (''Decolopoda australis'', ''D. qasimi'', and ''Pentacolossendeis reticulata'') with five pairs and one (''Dodecolopoda mawsoni'') with six pairs.

Taxonomy

* '' Colossendeis'' Jarzinsky, 1870 (67 species) ** '' Colossendeis acuta'' Stiboy-Risch, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis adelpha'' Child, 1998 ** '' Colossendeis angusta'' Sars, 1877 ** '' Colossendeis aperta'' Turpaeva, 2005 ** '' Colossendeis arcuata'' A. Milne-Edwards, 1885 ** '' Colossendeis australis'' Hodgson, 1907 ** '' Colossendeis avida'' Pushkin, 1970 ** '' Colossendeis belekurovi'' Pushkin, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis bicincta'' Schimkewitsch, 1893 ** '' Colossendeis brevirostris'' Child, 1995 ** '' Colossendeis bruuni'' Fage, 1956 ** '' Colossendeis clavata'' Meinert, 1899 ** '' Colossendeis colossea'' Wilson, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis concedis'' Child, 1995 ** '' Colossendeis cucurbita'' Cole, 1909 ** '' Colossendeis curtirostris'' Stock, 1963 ** '' Colossendeis dalli'' Child, 1995 ** '' Colossendeis drakei'' Calman, 1915 ** '' Colossendeis elephantis'' Child, 1995 ** '' Colossendeis enigmatica'' Turpaeva, 1974 ** '' Colossendeis ensifer'' Child, 1995 ** '' Colossendeis fijigrypos'' Bamber, 2004 ** '' Colossendeis fragilis'' Pushkin, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis gardineri'' Carpenter, 1907 ** '' Colossendeis geoffroyi'' Mane-Garzon, 1944 ** '' Colossendeis gibbosa'' Mobius, 1902 ** '' Colossendeis glacialis'' Hodgson, 1907 ** '' Colossendeis gracilis'' Hoek, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis grassa'' Pushkin, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis hoeki'' Gordon, 1944 ** '' Colossendeis insolita'' Pushkin, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis japonica'' Hoek, 1898 ** '' Colossendeis korotkevitschi'' Pushkin, 1984 ** '' Colossendeis kurtchatovi'' Turpaeva, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis leninensis'' Pushkin, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis leptorhynchus'' Hoek, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis longirostris'' Gordon, 1938 ** '' Colossendeis losinskii'' Turpaeva, 2002 ** '' Colossendeis macerrima'' Wilson, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis media'' Hoek, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis megalonyx'' Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969 ** '' Colossendeis melancholicus'' Stock, 1975 ** '' Colossendeis mica'' Pushkin, 1970 ** '' Colossendeis microsetosa'' Hilton, 1943 ** '' Colossendeis minor'' Schimkewitsch, 1893 ** '' Colossendeis minuta'' Hoek, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis mycterismos'' Bamber, 2004 ** '' Colossendeis nasuta'' Hedgpeth, 1949 ** '' Colossendeis notialis'' Child 1995 ** '' Colossendeis oculifera'' Stock, 1963 ** '' Colossendeis peloria'' Child, 1994 ** '' Colossendeis perforata'' Turpaeva, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis pipetta'' Stock, 1991 ** '' Colossendeis proboscidea'' (Sabine) ** '' Colossendeis robusta'' Hoek, 1881 ** '' Colossendeis rostrata'' Turpaeva, 1994 ** '' Colossendeis scoresbii'' Gordon, 1932 ** '' Colossendeis scotti'' Calman, 1915 ** '' Colossendeis sinuosa'' Stock, 1997 ** '' Colossendeis spicula'' Child, 1994 ** '' Colossendeis stramenti'' Fry and Hedgpeth, 1969 ** '' Colossendeis subminuta'' Schimkewitsch, 1893 ** '' Colossendeis tenera'' Hilton, 1943 ** '' Colossendeis tenuipedis'' Pushkin, 1993 ** '' Colossendeis tethya'' Turpaeva, 1974 ** '' Colossendeis tortipalpis'' Gordon, 1932 ** '' Colossendeis vityazi'' Turpaeva, 1973 ** '' Colossendeis wilsoni'' Calman, 1915 * '' Decolopoda'' Eights, 1835 ** '' Decolopoda australis'' Eights, 1835 —

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(littoral) ** '' Decolopoda quasimi'' Sree, Sreepada & Parulekar, 1993 * '' Dodecolopoda'' Calman & Gordon, 1933 ** '' Dodecolopoda mawsoni'' Calman & Gordon, 1933 — Scotia Sea * '' Hedgpethia'' Turpaeva, 1973 (12 species) * '' Pentacolossendeis'' Hedgpeth, 1943 ** '' Pentacolossendeis reticulata'' Hedgpeth, 1943 * '' Rhopalorhynchus'' ** '' Rhopalorhynchus cinclus'' Bamber, 2001 — Bodgaya Southern Rim Reef,

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(on a sponge) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus claudus'' Stock, 1975 —

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(muddy sand, shell debris, sponge bottom) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus clavipes'' Carpenter, 1893 —

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(between reefs) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus filipes'' Stock, 1991 — between

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and

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, near Chesterfield Island ** '' Rhopalorhynchus gracillimus'' Carpenter, 1907 —

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(on a black crinoid) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus kroeyeri'' Wood-Mason, 1873 —

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(on the bottom of filamentous algae) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus lomani'' Stock, 1958 —

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** '' Rhopalorhynchus mortenseni'' Stock, 1958 — off

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, Sulu Archipelago (on sand and corals) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus pedunculatum'' Stock, 1957 —

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(shore) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus sibogae'' Stock, 1958 —

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Sea, Indonesia (on mud and sand) ** '' Rhopalorhynchus tenuissimus'' Haswell, 1884 —

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References

Sources

* PycnoBase
Taxon tree
{{Taxonbar, from=Q147237 Pycnogonids Chelicerate families