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Gangly Lancer

Nymphon gracile

Classification

Nymphon gracile is a species of sea spider first described by William Elford Leach in 1863. The species highly resembles other members of the genus Nymphon, and species identification from morphological traits alone is, therefore, a complex task. Anatomy and general body description When Willian Elford Leach first described Nymphon gracile, he described it as an organism having a body that consisted of four feet bearing segments with the first segment being head like, with two eyes on each sides, a cylindrical rostrum inserted under the first segment, mandibles longer than the rostrum…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 30United Kingdom · 25Italy · 3Germany · 1