''Colossendeis colossea'' is a species of

sea spider Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the order Pantopoda ( ‘all feet’), belonging to the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (; named after ''Pycnogonum'', the type genus; with the suffix '). They are cosmopolitan, fou ...

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Pycnogonida Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the order Pantopoda ( ‘all feet’), belonging to the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (; named after ''Pycnogonum'', the type genus; with the suffix '). They are cosmopolitan, fo ...

) in the family

Colossendeidae Colossendeidae is a family of sea spider (class Pycnogonida). Like most sea spiders, all species in this family have four pairs of legs, except for three species (''Decolopoda australis'', ''D. qasimi'', and ''Pentacolossendeis reticulata'') with ...

. The species was first described by Wilson in 1881.

References

Pycnogonids {{chelicerata-stub Animals described in 1881