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.

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

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