Species Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)	Year
Achelia adelpha		Pacific Ocean		1970
Achelia alaskensis		Pacific and Arctic Oceans	1 LS	1904
Achelia anomala		Northeast Atlantic		1974
Achelia armata		Northeast Atlantic		1916
Achelia aspera		Australia.		1923
Achelia assimilis	Sea spiders	Indo-Pacific and Southwes	0.1 TRKL	1885
Achelia australiensis		Southwest Pacific		1954
Achelia barnardi		Southeast Atlantic		1959
Achelia besnardi		Indo-Pacific and Western		1951
Achelia bituberculata		Northwest Pacific		1949
Achelia borealis		Indo-Pacific, Atlantic an		1895
Achelia boschi		Western Indian Ocean		1992
Achelia brevicauda		Southeast Atlantic		1904
Achelia brevirostris		North Pacific		1961
Achelia bullosa		Western Central Pacific		1996
Achelia chelata		Western Central Atlantic		1939
Achelia columnaris		Southwest Atlantic		1992
Achelia communis		Antarctic and Atlantic.		1906
Achelia crurispinifera		Northwest Pacific		1985
Achelia deodata		Indo-West Pacific		1990
Achelia dohrni		Southwest Pacific		1884
Achelia echinata		Northwest Pacific, Atlant		1864
Achelia fernandeziana		Southeast Pacific.		1920
Achelia gracilipes		Eastern Central Pacific		1904
Achelia gracilis		Western Central Atlantic.		1900
Achelia hariettae		Northeast Pacific		1940
Achelia hoekii		Antarctic Atlantic and Pa		1889
Achelia kamtschatica		Northwest Pacific		1961
Achelia kiiensis		Northwest Pacific		1951
Achelia kurilensis		Northwest Pacific		1961
Achelia laevis		Northeast Atlantic.		1864
Achelia lagena		Southwest Atlantic		1994
Achelia lagenaria		Western Indian Ocean		1992
Achelia langi		Eastern Atlantic and the		1881
Achelia latifrons		Pacific Ocean		1904
Achelia lavrentii		Northwest Pacific.		1933
Achelia litke		Northwest Pacific.		1933
Achelia megacephala		Antarctic Indian Ocean		1915
Achelia megova		Pacific Ocean	1.1 LS	1942
Achelia mixta		Western Central Pacific		1994
Achelia nana		Indo-West Pacific		1908
Achelia neotenica		Northwest Pacific and Arc		1986
Achelia orientalis		Northwest Pacific		1913
Achelia orpax		Northwest Pacific		1983
Achelia oshimai		Northwest Pacific		1954
Achelia ovosetosa		Eastern Pacific	2.2 LS	1942
Achelia parvula		Western Indian Ocean and		1923
Achelia pribilofensis		Northwest Pacific		1904
Achelia quadridentata		Western Indian Ocean, Sou		1910
Achelia salebrosa		Northwest Pacific		1961
Achelia sawayai		Western Atlantic and Indo		1940
Achelia scabra		Northwest Atlantic		1880
Achelia segmentata		Northwest Pacific		1954
Achelia serratipalpis		Antarctic Pacific and Atl		1911
Achelia setulosa		Eastern Atlantic		1912
Achelia sheperdi		Australia.		1973
Achelia simplex		Northeast Atlantic and Me		1934
Achelia simplissima		Eastern Pacific		1939
Achelia socors		Western Central Pacific		1908
Achelia spatula		Northwest Pacific		1983
Achelia spicata		Antarctic.		1915
Achelia spinosa		Northeast Pacific, Northw		1878
Achelia spinoseta		Eastern Pacific		1939
Achelia sufflata		Antarctic.		1944
Achelia superba		Northwest Pacific		1911
Achelia tenuipes		Eastern Atlantic		1990
Achelia transfuga		Southwest Pacific		1954
Achelia transfugoides		Eastern Indian Ocean		1973
Achelia turba		Eastern Atlantic		1990
Achelia uschakovi		Northern Pacific		1933
Achelia vulgaris		Northeast Atlantic and th		1861
Achelia watamu		Western Indian Ocean		1990
Acheliana tropicalis		Southwest Indian Ocean.		1971
Ammothea acheliata		Southwest Pacific	0.1 LS	1998
Ammothea adunca		Antarctic Indian Ocean an	16.3 LS	1994
Ammothea allopodes		Antarctic Atlantic		1969
Ammothea antipodensis		Southwest Pacific	1.6 LS	1972
Ammothea armentis		Antarctic Indian Ocean		1994
Ammothea australiensis		Indo-West Pacific		1919
Ammothea bentartica		Antarctic Atlantic		2001
Ammothea bicorniculata		Atlantic Antarctic		1992
Ammothea bigibbosa		Antarctic Peninsula (Ref.	12.1 LS	2005
Ammothea calmani		Antarctic		1932
Ammothea carolinensis		Antarctic.		1814
Ammothea childi		Antarctic Ocean		2013
Ammothea clausi		Antarctic.		1889
Ammothea depolaris		Southwest Atlantic		1966
Ammothea dorsiplicata		Eastern Pacific		1942
Ammothea gibbosa		Antarctic.		1902
Ammothea gigantea		Atlantic Antarctic and Pa		1932
Ammothea glacialis		Antarctic.		1907
Ammothea gordonae		Pacific Antarctic		1994
Ammothea hedgpethi		Northwest Pacific		1959
Ammothea hilgendorfi	Hilgendorf's sea spider	Northeast Atlantic, Pacif		1879
Ammothea insularis		Southwest Pacific		1992
Ammothea longispina		Southwest Atlantic and An		1932
Ammothea magniceps		Indo-West Pacific		1884
Ammothea makara		Southwest Pacific		1977
Ammothea meridionalis		Antarctic Atlantic		1915
Ammothea minor		Antarctic.		1907
Ammothea ovatoides		Eastern Indian Ocean		1973
Ammothea profunda		Northwest Pacific		1961
Ammothea pseudospinosa		Antarctic Ocean		2013
Ammothea sexarticulata		Southwest Atlantic and An		1989
Ammothea sextarticulata		Southwest Atlantic and An		1991
Ammothea spicula		Northwest Pacific		1983
Ammothea spinosa		Southwest Atlantic and th		1907
Ammothea striata		Antarctic.		1902
Ammothea stylirostris		Atlantic Antarctic		1932
Ammothea tetrapora		Southwest Atlantic and An		1932
Ammothea tibialis		Antarctic Atlantic.		2002
Ammothea uru		Southwest Pacific		1977
Ammothea verenae		Northeast Pacific		1987
Ammothea victoriae		Antarctic Ocean		2007
Ammothella alcalai		Western Central Pacific	1 LS	1988
Ammothella appendiculata		Indo-Pacific, Eastern Cen		1881
Ammothella biunguiculata		Indo-Pacific and the Medi		1881
Ammothella cymosa		Northwest Pacific		1983
Ammothella dawsoni		Southeast Pacific		1971
Ammothella elegantula		Western Central Pacific		1968
Ammothella exornata		Western Central Atlantic		1975
Ammothella gibraltarensis		Western Mediterranean		1993
Ammothella hedgpethi		Eastern Central Atlantic		1953
Ammothella heterosetosa		Eastern Pacific		1942
Ammothella hispida		Eastern Pacific		1864
Ammothella indica		Indo-Pacific		1954
Ammothella japonica		Northwest Pacific		1990
Ammothella longioculata		Mediterranean		1940
Ammothella longipes		Northeast Atlantic and th		1864
Ammothella marcusi		Western Central Atlantic		1948
Ammothella menziesi		Eastern Pacific		1951
Ammothella nimia		Indo-West Pacific		1991
Ammothella omanensis		Western Indian Ocean		1992
Ammothella ovalis		Western Central Pacific		1994
Ammothella pacifica		Pacific Ocean		1942
Ammothella panamensis		Western Central Atlantic	0.7 LS	2004
Ammothella paradisiaca		Pacific Ocean		1923
Ammothella pilosa		Northwest Pacific		1961
Ammothella prolixa		Western Central Pacific		1990
Ammothella rostrata		Northwest Pacific		1961
Ammothella rotundata		Western Central Pacific		1988
Ammothella rugulosa		Western Central Atlantic		1900
Ammothella schmitti		South Pacific (Ref. 19);		1970
Ammothella setacea		Southeast Atlantic		1938
Ammothella setosa		Eastern Pacific		1942
Ammothella spinifera		Northeast Pacific and Wes		1904
Ammothella stauromata		Indo-Pacific		1982
Ammothella stocki		Southwest Pacific		1963
Ammothella symbia		Eastern Pacific		1979
Ammothella thetidis		Southwest Pacific		1963
Ammothella tippula		Indo-West Pacific		1983
Ammothella tuberculata		Eastern Pacific		1904
Ammothella tubicen		Eastern Central Atlantic		1978
Ammothella uniunguiculata		Southeast Atlantic and th		1881
Ammothella vanninii		Western Indian Ocean		1982
Anisopus heteroscela		Atlantic Ocean		1996
Ascorhynchus abyssi		Northeast Atlantic and th		1877
Ascorhynchus agassizi		Eastern Central Pacific		1893
Ascorhynchus antipodus		Southwest Pacific		1987
Ascorhynchus arenicolum		Southeast Atlantic and th		1881
Ascorhynchus armatus		Western Atlantic and Indo		1881
Ascorhynchus athernum		Northwest Atlantic.		1982
Ascorhynchus auchenicum		Northwest Pacific.		1879
Ascorhynchus bacescui		Western Indian Ocean		1975
Ascorhynchus birsteini		Southeast Pacific		1971
Ascorhynchus breviscapus		Western Central Pacific.		1968
Ascorhynchus bucerus		Northwest Pacific		1971
Ascorhynchus cactoides		Western Central Pacific		1954
Ascorhynchus castelli		Western Atlantic and the		1881
Ascorhynchus castellioides		Western Central Atlantic		1957
Ascorhynchus colei		Western Central Atlantic		1943
Ascorhynchus comatus		Eastern Pacific		1992
Ascorhynchus compactus		Indo-West Pacific		1963
Ascorhynchus constrictus		Western Central Pacific		1991
Ascorhynchus cooki		Southwest Pacific and the		1987
Ascorhynchus corderoi		Indo-Pacific		1952
Ascorhynchus crenatus		Western Central Atlantic		1992
Ascorhynchus cryptopygius		Northwest Pacific		1890
Ascorhynchus cuculus		Atlantic Antarctic		1969
Ascorhynchus dietheus		Western Indian Ocean.		2002
Ascorhynchus discrepans		Western Central Atlantic		1955
Ascorhynchus endoparasiticus		Northeast Atlantic		1978
Ascorhynchus foresti		Western Central Pacific		1991
Ascorhynchus fragilis		Western Pacific		1991
Ascorhynchus fusticulus		Northwest Pacific		1983
Ascorhynchus glaber		Antarctic and Western Ind		1881
Ascorhynchus glaberrimus		Northwest Pacific		1913
Ascorhynchus hedgpethi		Southwest Atlantic		1974
Ascorhynchus heuresis		Northeast Atlantic.		2002
Ascorhynchus hippos		Northern Pacific.		1994
Ascorhynchus horologius		Western Central Atlantic		1992
Ascorhynchus inflatus		Pacific Ocean and South A		1963
Ascorhynchus insularus		Southwest Pacific		1972
Ascorhynchus ios		Eastern Central Atlantic		1993
Ascorhynchus japonicus		Pacific Ocean		1891
Ascorhynchus laterospinus		Eastern Pacific		1942
Ascorhynchus latipes		Western and Central Atlan		1906
Ascorhynchus levissimus		Central Indo-West Pacific		1908
Ascorhynchus levivani		Northern Pacific.		1994
Ascorhynchus longicollis		Indo-West Pacific		1884
Ascorhynchus losinalosinskii		Northwest Pacific		1971
Ascorhynchus mariae		Northwest Pacific		1971
Ascorhynchus melwardi		Western Central Pacific		1929
Ascorhynchus meteor		Western Indian Ocean		1989
Ascorhynchus miniscapus		Western Central Pacific		1993
Ascorhynchus minutus		Western Central Pacific		1881
Ascorhynchus okai		Western Pacific		1983
Ascorhynchus ornatus		Southeast Atlantic, Pacif		1938
Ascorhynchus orthorhynchus		Western Central Pacific		1881
Ascorhynchus orthostomum		Southwest Pacific	4.6 LS	1998
Ascorhynchus ovicoxa		Western Atlantic		1975
Ascorhynchus pararmatus		Western Central Atlantic		1975
Ascorhynchus parvituberculatus		Northwest Pacific		1953
Ascorhynchus paxillum		Eastern Pacific.		1992
Ascorhynchus pennai		Southwest Atlantic		1946
Ascorhynchus petilus		Southwest Atlantic		1996
Ascorhynchus pilipes		Western Central Pacific		1991
Ascorhynchus prosus		Northwest Pacific		1983
Ascorhynchus pudicus		Northeast Atlantic and th		1970
Ascorhynchus pyrginospinum		Northwest Pacific and Wes		1967
Ascorhynchus ramipes		Northwest Pacific		1879
Ascorhynchus serratus		Western Central Atlantic		1948
Ascorhynchus seticauda		Indo-West Pacific		1991
Ascorhynchus simile		Eastern Central Atlantic		1942
Ascorhynchus simplex		Northwest Pacific		1991
Ascorhynchus somaliensis		Western Indian Ocean		1994
Ascorhynchus stocki		Northwest Pacific		1987
Ascorhynchus tenuirostris		Western Central Pacific		1892
Ascorhynchus tuberosus		Northwest Pacific		1962
Ascorhynchus turritus		Atlantic Ocean. Tropical		1978
Ascorhynchus utinomii		Northwest Pacific		1982
Ascorhynchus verrucosus		Central Indo-West Pacific		1991
Austroraptus calcaratus		Antarctic Pacific		1944
Austroraptus juvenilis		Antarctic South Georgia,		1915
Austroraptus polaris		Antarctic		1907
Austroraptus praecox		Antarctic		1915
Austroraptus sicarius		Antarctic Atlantic		1969
Bathyzetes extenuata		Western Indian Ocean		1938
Bathyzetes setiger		Indo-West Pacific.		1908
Bathyzetes umbrella		Western Central Pacific		2004
Bathyzetes virago		Indo-West Pacific		1908
Biammothea brevipalpa		Southwest Atlantic and An		1993
Boehmia chelata		Shelf of east coast of So		1879
Boehmia dubia		Antarctic Pacific		1950
Boehmia longirostris		Western Indian Ocean		1957
Boehmia tuberosa		Western Indian Ocean		1902
Calypsopycnon georgiae		Western Indian Ocean		1948
Chonothea hians		Northwest Pacific		1983
Chonothea verrucosa		Northwest Pacific		1991
Cilunculus acanthus		Southwest Atlantic and An		1969

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Species Identification: Find Species

Family: Ammotheidae (See list of species below)

Family: Ammotheidae

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