Colossendeidae

Colossendeidae Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Pycnogonida
Order:	Pantopoda
Family:	Colossendeidae
Genera
Colossendeis Decolopoda Dodecolopoda Hedgpethia Rhopalorhynchus
Diversity
5 genera

Colossendeidae is a family of sea spider (class Pycnogonida).

Taxonomy

• Colossendeis Jarzinsky, 1870 (67 species)
  • Colossendeis acuta Stiboy-Risch, 1993
  • Colossendeis adelpha Child, 1998
  • Colossendeis angusta Sars, 1877
  • Colossendeis aperta Turpaeva, 2005
  • Colossendeis arcuata A. Milne-Edwards, 1885
  • Colossendeis australis Hodgson, 1907
  • Colossendeis avida Pushkin, 1970
  • Colossendeis belekurovi Pushkin, 1993
  • Colossendeis bicincta Schimkewitsch, 1893
  • Colossendeis brevirostris Child, 1995
  • Colossendeis bruuni Fage, 1956
  • Colossendeis clavata Meinert, 1899
  • Colossendeis colossea Wilson, 1881
  • Colossendeis concedis Child, 1995
  • Colossendeis cucurbita Cole, 1909
  • Colossendeis curtirostris Stock, 1963
  • Colossendeis dalli Child, 1995
  • Colossendeis drakei Calman, 1915
  • Colossendeis elephantis Child, 1995
  • Colossendeis enigmatica Turpaeva, 1974
  • Colossendeis ensifer Child, 1995
  • Colossendeis fijigrypos Bamber, 2004
  • Colossendeis fragilis Pushkin, 1993
  • Colossendeis gardineri Carpenter, 1907
  • Colossendeis geoffroyi Mane-Garzon, 1944
  • Colossendeis gibbosa Mobius, 1902
  • Colossendeis glacialis Hodgson, 1907
  • Colossendeis gracilis Hoek, 1881
  • Colossendeis grassa Pushkin, 1993
  • Colossendeis hoeki Gordon, 1944
  • Colossendeis insolita Pushkin, 1993
  • Colossendeis japonica Hoek, 1898
  • Colossendeis korotkevitschi Pushkin, 1984
  • Colossendeis kurtchatovi Turpaeva, 1993
  • Colossendeis leninensis Pushkin, 1993
  • Colossendeis leptorhynchus Hoek, 1881
  • Colossendeis longirostris Gordon, 1938
  • Colossendeis losinskii Turpaeva, 2002
  • Colossendeis macerrima Wilson, 1881
  • Colossendeis media Hoek, 1881
  • Colossendeis megalonyx Fry & Hedgpeth, 1969
  • Colossendeis melancholicus Stock, 1975
  • Colossendeis mica Pushkin, 1970
  • Colossendeis microsetosa Hilton, 1943
  • Colossendeis minor Schimkewitsch, 1893
  • Colossendeis minuta Hoek, 1881
  • Colossendeis mycterismos Bamber, 2004
  • Colossendeis nasuta Hedgpeth, 1949
  • Colossendeis notialis Child 1995
  • Colossendeis oculifera Stock, 1963
  • Colossendeis peloria Child, 1994
  • Colossendeis perforata Turpaeva, 1993
  • Colossendeis pipetta Stock, 1991
  • Colossendeis proboscidea (Sabine)
  • Colossendeis robusta Hoek, 1881
  • Colossendeis rostrata Turpaeva, 1994
  • Colossendeis scoresbii Gordon, 1932
  • Colossendeis scotti Calman, 1915
  • Colossendeis sinuosa Stock, 1997
  • Colossendeis spicula Child, 1994
  • Colossendeis stramenti Fry and Hedgpeth, 1969
  • Colossendeis subminuta Schimkewitsch, 1893
  • Colossendeis tenera Hilton, 1943
  • Colossendeis tenuipedis Pushkin, 1993
  • Colossendeis tethya Turpaeva, 1974
  • Colossendeis tortipalpis Gordon, 1932
  • Colossendeis vityazi Turpaeva, 1973
  • Colossendeis wilsoni Calman, 1915
• Decolopoda Eights, 1835
  • Decolopoda australis Eights, 1835 — Scotia Sea (littoral)
• Dodecolopoda Calman & Gordon, 1933
  • Dodecolopoda mawsoni Calman & Gordon, 1933 — Scotia Sea
• Hedgpethia Turpaeva, 1973 (12 species)
• Rhopalorhynchus
  • Rhopalorhynchus cinclus Bamber, 2001 — Bodgaya Southern Rim Reef, Malaysia (on a sponge)
  • Rhopalorhynchus claudus Stock, 1975 — Barbados (muddy sand, shell debris, sponge bottom)
  • Rhopalorhynchus clavipes Carpenter, 1893 — Torres Strait (between reefs)
  • Rhopalorhynchus filipes Stock, 1991 — between Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia, near Chesterfield Island
  • Rhopalorhynchus gracillimus Carpenter, 1907 — Maldive Islands (on a black crinoid)
  • Rhopalorhynchus kroeyeri Wood-Mason, 1873 — Andaman Islands (on the bottom of filamentous algae)
  • Rhopalorhynchus lomani Stock, 1958 — Makassar Strait, Indonesia
  • Rhopalorhynchus mortenseni Stock, 1958 — off Jolo, Sulu Archipelago (on sand and corals)
  • Rhopalorhynchus pedunculatum Stock, 1957 — Red Sea (shore)
  • Rhopalorhynchus sibogae Stock, 1958 — Flores Sea, Indonesia (on mud and sand)
  • Rhopalorhynchus tenuissimus Haswell, 1884 — Port Denison, Australia

References

• PycnoBase: Taxon tree