sea-spiders
Long Island Seashore Creatures

sea-spiders

Class Pycnogonida

[ sea-spiders ]
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Nikita

The pycnogonids, or sea spiders, are a strange group of small-bodied, long-legged marine arthropods. Though they walk on 8 legs, they are not spiders, which belong to a quite different group of arthropods... Pycnogonids feed by sucking the body fluids and soft tissues of hydroids, sea anemones, soft corals, sponges, or bryozoans.

[ National Audubon Society Field Guide of North American Seashore Creatures. ]