Achelia sawayai

Achelia sawayai   Marcus, 1940


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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Pycnogonida | Pantopoda | Ammotheidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 0 - 115 m (Ref. 116112).  Subtropical

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Western Atlantic and Indo Pacific.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm

Short description Morphology

Trunk circular in dorsal outline; lateral processes contiguous, without major tubercles. Ocular tubercle only as tall as wide; eyes large. Chelifore scapes I-segmented; chelae vestigial, globular. Palps 8-segmented; terminal 4 segments short, very setose. Ovigers 10-segmented, with weak strigilis bearing denticulate spines. Legs slender; first coxae with 2 and second coxae with 3 laterodistal tubercles. Cement gland tube at dorsodistal tip of femur. Propodus large, without major heel spines (Ref. 2115, p. 11).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Coastal (Ref. 19) and outer continental shelf (Ref. 116112). Epibiotic (Ref. 116112). On corals (Ref. 2086).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Members of the class Pycnogonida are gonochoric and sexually dimorphic. During copulation, male usually suspends itself beneath the female. Fertilization occurs as the eggs leave the female's ovigers. Males brood the egg masses until they hatch. Life cycle: Eggs hatch into protonymphon larva then to adults.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Stock, J.H. 1994 Indo-West Pacific Pycnogonida collected by some major oceanographic expiditions. p. 24. In Child, C. A. (ed.) The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Pycnogonida (Sea Spiders). NIWA Bioderversity Memior 109. National Institute of Water and atmospheric Research (NIWA). )Washington, D.C. 20530, USA. 71 p. (Ref. 140)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 22.7 - 28.2, mean 26.4 (based on 238 cells).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

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