Pycnogonida Arthropoda Animalia Flora and Fauna

Pycnogonida Arthropoda Animalia Flora and Fauna

Order of sea spiders that have adopted an underwater life, with spindly legs and a small, vestigial abdomen. Although they resemble true spiders in appearance there are considerable anatomical differences. They date back to the Devonian era and there are about 85 genera and 1000 living species.

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Pycnogonida

Chelicerata - Six photographs of sea spiders.
Class Pycnogonida (Sea Spiders) - Short introduction from the Animal Diversity Web.
Introduction to the Pycnogonida - Brief introduction to sea spiders, including information on their feeding and anatomy.
Anoplodactylus lentus - Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics and external anatomy of this sea spider.
Sea Spiders: Class Pycnogonida - An introduction to the biology and ecology of Sea Spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida).
Jason Dunlop - Research Interests - Among his other research interests, Jason Dunlop is working on a fossil pantopod larva.
Sea Slug Predators - Pycnogonids (Sea Spiders) - Photo of a pycnogonid; information about Anoplodactylus evansi, a generalist predator of small opisthobranchs. From Sea Slug Forum.
Chelicerata: Sea Spiders - Photographs and information from the Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island and McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
Pantopoda 1789-1995 - Extensive Pycnogonida (Pantopoda) bibliography compiled by Dr. Franz Krapp.

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