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Trunk: no mediodorsal tubercles or swellings, lateral processes separated by less than their diameters. With laterodistal spines. Ocular tubercle: short, with small apical cone. Eyes: no pigment. Proboscis: short, distally rounded to small mouth. Abdomen: erect, long, with small but distinct dorsodistal tubercle. Palp: long, segments longer than their diameters, with few to ventral setae. Chelae: atrophied to bumps, scapes short. Ovigers: typical of genus. Legs: with setae in rows, longer than others. Femoral cement gland tube: well distal, small with very short tube. Propodus: with 3 large heel spines, shorter sole spines. Main claw: robust, long, with auxiliary claws longer than half main claw length (Ref. 9).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | 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.