Living Chelicerates appreciation thread

Many people donโ€™t know that there are arthropods that are neither Insects (Myriapods and Hexapods), nor Crustaceans.

From Wikipedia:

Chelicerates include the sea spiders, horseshoe crabs, and arachnids (including harvestmen, scorpions, spiders, solifuges, ticks, and mites, among many others), as well as a number of extinct lineages, such as the eurypterids (sea scorpions) and chasmataspidids.

This thread is for the appreciation of living Chelicerate arthropods. Extinct organisms should go in the Favorite Ancient/Prehistoric Organism Thread.


By Shubham Chatterjee - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, File:Tachypleus gigas.JPG - Wikimedia Commons

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Well that surely is one heck of an ancient plantโ€ฆ

That is actually where uploaded the image comes from.

Also I donโ€™t think thatโ€™s the underside of a HC

Yeah. I know. The issues of using Wikipedia. :person_facepalming: Let me change it to a better picture.

Thankfully the incorrect photo wonโ€™t stay occupying the precious forum space for longโ€ฆ

Eurypterids.


They kinda remind me of the multicellular predator from Narotizaโ€™s Thrive comics, for some reason. Probably the face.

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These are extinct critters though.

The closest thing to them currently alive are Scorpions, obviously.

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Yes, but the point still stands that these are not extant.

Huh. I thought it said โ€œextinctโ€ in the title when I posted that. Turns out itโ€™s just another case of my stupidity.

You can post Eurypterids on the Favorite Ancient/Prehistoric Organism Thread.

Or perhaps some words being too similarโ€ฆ

I will change the thread title to โ€œLivingโ€ so there isnโ€™t confusion.

That should make the matters much more clear for all visiting this threadโ€ฆ

I did not know Whip Scorpions (Uropygi), a type of arachnid, existed until today.


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Oh, I have heard of whip spiders but not whip scorpionsโ€ฆ

thatโ€™s terrifying, I love it.

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Well atleast this isnโ€™t an australian wildlife species.

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Spelungula - a clawed cave spider found only in New Zealand.


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