APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

Sea spiders - Pycnogonida (Pycnogonida images)
Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Ascorhynchoidea (Superfamily) > Ammotheidae (Family)

Achelia
Achelia echinata Hodge, 1864 - An ammotheid sea spider
Achelia species (possibly A. simplex) ?
- An ammotheid sea spider (Battery Rocks 09.11.14)

Ammothea
Ammothea hilgendorfi (Böhm, 1879) - Pacific brown banded sea spider - Poole, Dorset. (invasive non-native species)

Ammothea hilgendorfi (Böhm, 1879) - Pacific brown
banded sea spider - from Saltash, Cornwall.
(invasive non-native species)

Ammothella
Ammothella longipes (Hodge, 1864)
- An ammotheid sea spider

Tanystylum
Tanystylum conirostre (Dohrn, 1881)
- An ammotheid sea spider

Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Nymphonoidea (Superfamily) > Callipallenidae (Family)

Callipallene
Callipallene tiberi (Dohrn, 1881) - A callipallenid sea spider

Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Nymphonoidea (Superfamily) > Nymphonidae (Family)

Nymphon
Nymphon brevirostre Hodge, 1863 - Elegant sea spider
Nymphon gracile Leach, 1814 - Gangly lancer

Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Phoxichilidoidea (Superfamily) > Endeidae (Family)

Endeis
Endeis spinosa (Montagu, 1808) - An endeid sea spider

Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Phoxichilidoidea (Superfamily) > Phoxichilidiidae (Family)

Anoplodactylus
Anoplodactylus angulatus (Dohrn, 1881)
- A phoxichilidiid sea spider

Anoplodactylus petiolatus (Krøyer, 1844)
- a phoxichilidiid sea spider

Anoplodactylus pygmaeus (Hodge, 1864)
- A phoxichilidiid sea spider

Pantopoda (Order) > Eupantopodida (Suborder) > Pycnogonoidea (Superfamily) > Pycnogonidae (Family)

Pycnogonum
Pycnogonum litorale (Strom, 1762)
- A pycnogonid sea spider

Sea spider larvae / plankton

Sea spiders to identify

Sea spiders Pycnogonida images UK