Pycnogonida |
Pantopoda |
Phoxichilidiidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Benthic. Tropical
Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia and USA.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Trunk long, tenuous; first and second segmentation sutures complete, that between third and fourth segments present, indistinct, or absent. Lateral processes short, with dorsodistal setose tubercles decreasing in height on posterior pairs. Ocular tubercle conical, direct:d obliquely anteriad; eyes well pigmented, at midpoint of ocular cone. Female proboscis with pair of midventral outgrowths or alar processes. Abdomen slightly taller than ocular tubercle, with several short setae. Chelifore scapes with anterior setose tubercles; chelae setose, without teeth on fingers. Oviger terminal segments very setose. Legs with long tubercles ventrodistally on second coxae, dorsodistally on femorae and first tibiae; single cement gland orifice a long slit; propodi with distal tubercle, a marked heel with 3 spines, and no lamina; auxiliary claws lacking (Ref. 2115, p. 48-49).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Pycnogonida are gonochoric and sexually dimorphic. During copulation, male usually suspends itself beneath the female. Fertilization occurs as the eggs leave the female's ovigers. Males brood the egg masses until they hatch. Life cycle: Eggs hatch into protonymphon larva then to adults.
Arango, C.P. 2002. (Ref. 1951)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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Preferred temperature
(Ref.
115969): 23.5 - 28, mean 26.8 (based on 291 cells).
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Unknown.