What do sea spiders look like?

Sea spiders can be identified by their long legs and tiny body. The sea spider has a small, narrow body. It usually has four pairs of long, thin legs attached to the abdomen. Attached to the head there are usually three other pairs of Appendages – a pair called chelicerae, used for grasping food; a pair of sensory projections called palps; and a pair of egg-carrying legs (sometimes underdeveloped or absent in the female). The female lays round masses of eggs on the egg-carrying legs of the male, which carries the eggs until they hatch.

Sea spiders usually come in amazingly beautiful colours. The yellow-kneed sea spider, for example, has bright yellow stripes contrasting a red body. Other sea spiders have purple stripes, bright yellow solid bodies, or black and white stripes, and so on.

 

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