Colossendeidae

Colossendeidae is a family of sea spider (class Pycnogonida). 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 — Scotia Sea (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, Malaysia (on a sponge)
** '' Rhopalorhynchus claudus'' Stock, 1975 — Barbados (muddy sand, shell debris, sponge bottom)
** ''Rhopalorhynchus clavipes'' Carpenter, 1893 — Torres Strait (between reefs)
** ''Rhopalorhynchus filipes'' Stock, 1991 — between Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia, near Chesterfield Island
** ''Rhopalorhynchus gracillimus'' Carpenter, 1907 — Maldive Islands (on a black crinoid)
** ''Rhopalorhynchus kroeyeri'' Wood-Mason, 1873 — Andaman Islands (on the bottom of filamentous algae)
** ''Rhopalorhynchus lomani'' Stock, 1958 — Makassar Strait, Indonesia
** ''Rhopalorhynchus mortenseni'' Stock, 1958 — off Jolo, Sulu Archipelago (on sand and corals)
** '' Rhopalorhynchus pedunculatum'' Stock, 1957 — Red Sea (shore)
** ''Rhopalorhynchus sibogae'' Stock, 1958 — Flores Sea, Indonesia (on mud and sand)
** ''Rhopalorhynchus tenuissimus'' Haswell, 1884 — Port Denison, Australia

References

Sources

* PycnoBase
Taxon tree

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Pycnogonids
Chelicerate families