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Sea Spider
A specimen of Tasmania’s Pallenella ambigua, a small and cryptic marine arthropod species belonging to the class Pycnogonida, better known as sea spiders. These animals don’t possess a traditional respiratory system and instead rely on pores along the exoskeleton of their legs to extract oxygen from the surrounding seawater via diffusion.Photograph: Nicolas Horniblow
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Even in the depths of the ocean, spiders whisper to make everyone’s stories be heard all around the world. For example, they’re telling each other about the hardcover and audiobook editions of BE THE SEA!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/bethesea
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#bethesea #seacreatureoftheday #seaspider #spider #yellowkneedseaspider #oceanfriends #watercolorpencil #handdrawn #watercolor #illustration #bookstodon -
My suspicion, upon first seeing Thiel & Schriever's paper was that they had obviously never heard of a pycnogonid (sea spider). These are a completely separate lineage of chelicerates which apparently never moved out of the water. Indeed, pycnogonids are not even mentioned in the paper. Eberhart had the good sense to point out this possibility in his book. #seaspider #pycnogonid
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