A Scottish Sea Spider without kilt (from the Metro.co.uk) from the Rockall Trough off NW Scotland.
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A Scottish Sea Spider without kilt (from the Metro.co.uk) from the Rockall Trough off NW Scotland.
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At first I was just admiring the several different species cnidarian, one of which is probably a corallimorpharian.
Then I noticed the slipper limpet sitting on the proboscis of the pycnogonid. I kind of chuckled to myself, “oh those silly limpets” as I often do.
It was at that moment I realized the pycnogonid had 2 different sizes of legs. A closer examination revealed that there were 16 visible legs and two probosci at right angles to each.
So what you have in that picture is a small pycnogonid on top of a large one. God only knows they are doing in that position!