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Table 1 Summary of known food sources for pycnogonid family-level taxa

From: Feeding ecology in sea spiders (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida): what do we know?

 

Algae

Sponges

Hydroids

Actinians

Corals

Medusae

Bryozoans

Mollusks

Annelids

Crustaceans

Echinoderms

Detritus

Austrodecidae

  

+

   

+

     

Colossendeidae

 

?

+

+

+

+

 

+

+

  

+

Rhynchothoracidae

  

+

   

+

     

Pycnogonidae

   

+

 

+

+

   

+

+

Ascorhynchidae

 

+

  

?

  

+

    

Nymphonidae

?

 

+

+

?

 

+

+

+

+

 

+

Callipallenidae

  

+

   

+

 

+

   

Pallenopsidae

  

?

 

+

+

     

+

Phoxichilidiidae

 

+

+

  

+

+

+

+

+

+

 

Endeidae

  

+

+

+

      

+

Ammotheidae

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

Incertae sedis

   

+

    

+

   
  1. A plus sign indicates a definitive feeding association, a question mark indicates an association not confirmed by direct observations of feeding or gut content
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Frontiers in Zoology

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