Pycnogonida | 
Pantopoda | 
Ammotheidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / गहराई सीमा / distribution range				
				
					पारिस्थितिकी				
				
			
			
				;  गहराई सीमा 0 - 50 m (संदर्भ 9).  Temperate			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Southwest Pacific:  New Zealand and Sub Antarctic Islands.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / आकार / Weight / Age
			
			
				परिपक्व अवधि: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						Trunk:  circular in dorsal outline, segmentation lines lacking first or second segments divided by line.  Trunk and appendage spines with bifurcate tips, some trifurcate.  Lateral processes:  smooth, with small setae, touching for  their lengths.  Ocular tubercle:  short, eyes prominent.  Palp:  distal 3 segments carried anaxially on extended 5th segment.  Oviger strigilis:  with setae but with small denticulate spines.  Coxa:  2 distally swollen in females, with ventrodistal spur in males.  Major leg:  segments with longer than dorsal and lateral spines and few short setae.  Tarsus:  typical, very short, well curved, with 4, 5, or 6 larger heel spines, 8-10 small sole spines, claw and auxiliaries typical, robust (Ref. 9).					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
					New Zealand and Sub Antarctic Islands, from 0 to 50 m. The Mahai Peninsula, shallow waters of South Island and its offshore island; endemic (Ref. 9).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					परिपक्व अवधि | पुनरुत्पत्ति | मछलीऔ का अंडे देना | 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.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Child, C.A. 1998 The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pycnogonida (sea spiders). NIWA Biodiversity Memoire 109. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Washington, D.C. 20530, USA. 71 p. + Figure 2A-G, 3A-F, 4, 5. (संदर्भ 9)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (संदर्भ 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (संदर्भ 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
				CMS (संदर्भ 116361)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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					 Trophic EcologyFood items (preys)
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  Population dynamicsबाढ़
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बहुतायत
  Life cycleपुनरुत्पत्तिपरिपक्व अवधिFecundityमछलीऔ का अंडे देनाEggsEgg developmentLarvae   PhysiologyOxygen consumption
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				इंटरनेट स्रोत
			
			
			
			
			
				Estimates based on models
			
			
			
									
						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 11.7 - 20.2, mean 17.6 (based on 36 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
						
						
			
									
						Price category  					
					
					Unknown.