Category:Pycnogonida

Pyc`no*gon"i*da, n. pl. Etym: [nl., fr. Gr. (zoöl.)

Defn: a class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and Thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also pantopoda.

Note: the abdomen is rudimentary, and the triangular mouth is at the End of a tubular proboscis. Many of them live at great depths in the Sea, and the largest of them measure two feet across the extended Legs.