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Decolopoda is a
genus of sea
spider (class Pycnogonida) in the
family Colossendeidae. This
genus includes two
valid species, D.
australis and D. qasimi...
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colossendeids usually have four
pairs of legs,
except for
three species,
Decolopoda australis, D. qasimi, and
Pentacolossendeis reticulata, with five leg...
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genus Decolopoda,
which emerge as the
closest relatives of Dodecolopoda. This
analysis also
indicates that both
Dodecolopoda and
Decolopoda are nested...
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Decolopoda is the only
other genus in the
family Colossendeidae with five leg pairs. Like the sea
spiders in Pentacolossendeis,
those in
Decolopoda are...
- that this
genus is
paraphyletic with
respect to the ten-legged
genus Decolopoda and the twelve-legged
genus Dodecolopoda;
these two
polymerous (extra-legged)...
- H. (1993). "An
unusual giant pycnogonid (Pycnogonida-Colossendeidae)
Decolopoda qasimi sp. nov. from
Antarctic waters".
Current Science. 65 (2): 179–181...
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Pycnogonidae (five
pairs in Pentapycnon),
Colossendeidae (five
pairs in
Decolopoda and Pentacolossendeis, six
pairs in Dodecolopoda) and
Nymphonidae (five...
- H. (1993). "An
unusual giant pycnogonid (Pycnogonida-Colossendeidae)
Decolopoda qasimi sp. nov. from
Antarctic waters".
Current Science. 65 (2): 179–181...
