Image of Colossendeidae

Description:
Description: Large ball like structure of Sea spiders Pycnogonids, unable to identify species from the image, there is also a Colossendeis proboscidea with a nymphoid pycnogonid on it.
Item Type: Image
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Species: Colossendeis proboscidea
Behaviour: Large, dense aggragation and one large individual carrying another
Site: Atlantic -- North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Rosebank
North Sea -- West of Shetland -- Rosebank
Site Description: Seafloor
Depth (m): 1124
Latitude: 60 deg 59' 03" N
Longitude: 3 deg 49' 04" W
Countries: UK -- West of Shetland
Habitat: Benthic
Rig: Stena Carron
Deposited By: Miss Moira MacLean
Deposited On: 09 December 2010
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Chelicerata (chelicerates)
- Pycnogonida (sea spiders)
- Pantopoda
- Colossendeidoidea
- Colossendeidae
- Colossendeis
- Colossendeis proboscidea
- Panarthropoda
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