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Colossendeis Colossea
''Colossendeis colossea'' is a species of sea spider (class (biology), class Pycnogonida) in the family Colossendeidae. The species was species description, first described by Edmund Beecher Wilson, Edmund B. Wilson in 1881. It is the largest pycnogonid species known to science, reaching a leg span of . Body length, including proboscis and abdomen, can reach . ''Colossendeis colossea'' is a deep-water species inhabiting continental slopes at depths between m. It has a semi-cosmopolitan distribution in all main oceans apart from the Arctic Ocean. References Pycnogonids Arthropods of the Atlantic Ocean Arthropods of the Indian Ocean Arthropods of the Pacific Ocean Fauna of the Southern Ocean Animals described in 1881 {{chelicerata-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson (October 19, 1856 – March 3, 1939) was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most influential textbooks in modern biology, ''The Cell''. He discovered the chromosomal XY sex-determination system in 1905. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly thereafter. Career Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of Isaac G. Wilson, a judge, and his wife, Caroline Clarke. He graduated from Yale University in biology in 1878. He earned his Ph.D. in biology at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883–84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884–85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891. In 1888, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. He spent the balance of his career at Columbia University where he was successively adjunct professor of biology (1891–94), professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
