Colossendeidae

Colossendeidae
Scientific classification
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 marine 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 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