Colossendeidae Hoek 1881

• Main Authors: Takahashi, Yoshie, Dick, Matthew H., Mawatari, Shunsuke F.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2007
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Pycnogonida; Pantopoda; Colossendeidae; Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5229895; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF87A8FF89C10CFE53C348FC620F31

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