Pycnogonida | 
Pantopoda | 
Ammotheidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range				
				
					Οικολογία				
				
			
			
				;  εύρος βάθους 0 - 65 m (Αναφ. 2115).  Tropical			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Indo-Pacific, Eastern Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean:  Melanesia, Polynesia.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age
			
			
				Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm			
			
			
							
				
				
					
						Body ovoid in dorsal view; lateral processes separated by less than their diameters.  Palps 9 segmented; terminal 5 segments short, setose.  Chelifore scapes 2-segmented, moderately long but shorter than bulbous proboscis, with vestigial chelae lacking fingers.  Ovigers 10 segmented, with 1 or 2 denticulate spines on terminal 4 segments.  Abdomen and legs with several long, tubular dorsal spines and regular pointed spines.  Dorsodistal femoral cement gland tube long, robust.  Propodus with 4 large heel spines; claw and auxiliaries long (Ref. 2115, p. 12).					
				
				
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Coastal to shelf (Ref. 19).  Epibiotic (Ref. 116112).  Known from Carrie Bow Cay in sand trough behind outer reef ridge, in coral, sand, and rubble (Ref. 2086).  Part of a fouling community (Ref. 126174).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Members of the class Pycnogonida are gonochoric and sexually dimorphic.  During copulation, male usually suspends itself beneath the female.  Fertilization occurs as the eggs leave the female's ovigers.  Males brood the egg masses until they hatch.  Life cycle:  Eggs hatch into protonymphon larva then to adults.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Bamber, R.N. 2004 Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from French Cruises to Melanesia. Zootaxa 551:1-27. (Αναφ. 1852)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Αναφ. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 22.9 - 28.4, mean 26.7 (based on 860 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
						
						
			
									
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					Unknown.