Colossendeidae

Colossendeidae; Temporal range: Jurassic–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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). Nearly all species in this family have four pairs of legs, but three species (Decolopoda australis, D. qasimi, and Pentacolossendeis reticulata) have five pairs,^[1]^[2] and one (Dodecolopoda mawsoni) has six pairs.^[3]

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)
- Decolopoda quasimi Sree, Sreepada & Parulekar, 1993
Dodecolopoda Calman & Gordon, 1933
- Dodecolopoda mawsoni Calman & Gordon, 1933 — Scotia Sea
Hedgpethia Turpaeva, 1973 (12 species)
Pentacolossendeis Hedgpeth, 1943
- Pentacolossendeis reticulata Hedgpeth, 1943
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

^ Jayasree, V.; Sreepada, R. A.; Parulekar, A. H. (1993). "An unusual giant pycnogonid (Pycnogonida-Colossendeidae) Decolopoda qasimi sp. nov. from Antarctic waters". Current Science. 65 (2): 179–181 – via NIO Digital Repository Service.
^ Hedgpeth, Joel W. (1948). "The Pycnogonida of the Western North Atlantic and the Caribbean". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 97 (3216): 157–342 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
^ Calman, William Thomas; Gordon, Isabella (1933-06-01). "A dodecapodous pycnogonid". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 113 (781): 107–115. doi:10.1098/rspb.1933.0034.

[1] Jayasree, V.; Sreepada, R. A.; Parulekar, A. H. (1993). "An unusual giant pycnogonid (Pycnogonida-Colossendeidae) Decolopoda qasimi sp. nov. from Antarctic waters". Current Science. 65 (2): 179–181 – via NIO Digital Repository Service.

[2] Hedgpeth, Joel W. (1948). "The Pycnogonida of the Western North Atlantic and the Caribbean". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 97 (3216): 157–342 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[3] Calman, William Thomas; Gordon, Isabella (1933-06-01). "A dodecapodous pycnogonid". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character. 113 (781): 107–115. doi:10.1098/rspb.1933.0034.

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