Family Colossendeidae Jarzynsky 1870 (sea spider)
Pycnogonida - Pantopoda - Colossendeidae
Synonyms: Pasithoidae Sars 1891, Rhopalorhynchidae Fry 1978
Parent taxon: Pantopoda according to R. Sabroux et al. 2019
See also Dunlop et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Ammotheidae, Ascorhynchidae, Austrodecidae, Callipallenidae, Endeidae, Nymphonidae, Palaeopycnogonididae, Pallenopsidae, Phoxichilidiidae, Pycnogonidae, Rhynchothoracidae
Subtaxa: Colossendeinae
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
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