Colossendeidae Hoek 1881

• Main Authors: Takahashi, Yoshie, Dick, Matthew H., Mawatari, Shunsuke F.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Pycnogonida; Pantopoda; Colossendeidae; Antarctic; Hoek; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5229894; https://zenodo.org/record/5229894

FamilyCOLOSSENDEIDAE Hoek, 1881 Diagnosis. Size usually very large; trunk strong, without tubercles; lateral processes well separated; proboscis usually longer than trunk, cylindrical, held horizontally but sometimes distally downcurved; chelifores absent in adults, except in two Antarctic genera, Decolpoda and Dodecolopoda palps long, nine- or 10-segmented; ovigers in both sexes, very long, 10- segmented, with strong functional strigilis having several rows of spines and terminal claw; legs usually very long, slender; auxiliary claws lacking. Cement gland unknown. Contains eight-, 10- and 12-legged forms. Colossendeids tend to inhabit cold water, occurring in deep water at low latitudes but sometimes more shallowly at high latitudes. : Published as part of Takahashi, Yoshie, Dick, Matthew H. & Mawatari, Shunsuke F., 2007, Sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from waters adjacent to the Nansei Islands of Japan, pp. 61-79 in Journal of Natural History 41 (1 - 4) on page 66, DOI: 10.1080/00222930601121783, http://zenodo.org/record/5229875