Pantopoda {order} - Arthropoda; Pycnogonida;

Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (; named after Pycnogonum, the type genus; with the suffix -id). The class includes the only now-living order Pantopoda (lit. ‘all feet’), alongside a few fossil species which could trace back to the early or mid Paleozoic. They are cosmopolitan, found in oceans around the world. The over 1,300 known species have leg spans ranging from 1 mm (0.04 in) to over 70 cm (2.3 ft). Most are toward the smaller end of this range in relatively shallow depths; however, they can grow to be quite large in Antarctic and deep waters. Despite their name and brief resemblance, "sea spiders" are not spiders, nor even arachnids. While some literature around the 2000s suggests they may be a sister group to all other living arthropods, their traditional classification as a member of chelicerates alongside horseshoe crabs and arachnids has regained wide support in subsequent studies. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	5,260	Public Records:	4,051
Specimens with Sequences:	4,694	Public Species:	418
Specimens with Barcodes:	3,872	Public BINs:	506
Species:	507
Species With Barcodes:	385
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Southern Ocean 138 Mexico 11 Bahamas 1 Canada 123 Chile 8 India 1 United States 79 France 2 Argentina 1 Australia 75 Indian Ocean 2 Saudi Arabia 1 United Kingdom 19 Panama 2 Russia 1 Spain 16 China 2