First description of epimorphic development in Antarctic Pallenopsidae (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) with insights into the evolution of the four-articled sea spider cheliphore

• Published in: Zoological Letters
• Main Authors: Brenneis, Georg, Arango, Claudia P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2019
• Subjects: Zoology; Invertebrate biology; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Seta; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386012; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0118-7

Background: Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) are an abundant faunal element of the Southern Ocean (SO). Several recent phylogeographical studies focused on the remarkably diverse SO pycnogonid fauna, resulting in the identification of new species in previously ill-defined species complexes, insights into t...