CNN<\/a><\/p>\nA sea spider with hairy legs and three lips<\/p>\n
One of the new species was named Callipallene pilosuspedes. Long, curved spines grow along the lower parts of its legs, and it has three lips near its triangular mouth. The animal also has red eyes and claws. The species\u2019 name comes from Latin words meaning \u201chairy\u201d and \u201cfeet.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the University of British Columbia, this sea spider has flexible appendages that it can use to clean its body. Under a microscope, researchers observed the animal wrapping them around its legs and cleaning them with comb-like spines.<\/p>\n
The second species has black eyes<\/p>\n
The other newly discovered species, Tanystylum kiixin, is distinguished by its black eyes, claws with thickened tips, and an abdomen shaped like an hourglass. The appendages it uses to carry eggs are shorter and less flexible, so the animal cannot clean itself effectively. Small parasites were also often found on it.<\/p>\n
The name \u201ckiixin\u201d is associated with the sound of waves breaking near the site of an ancient Indigenous settlement. The species was found there.<\/p>\n
Marine biodiversity has not been fully explored<\/p>\n
Lead author Cormac Toler-Scott studied sea spiders during his master\u2019s degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia. He was interested in how climate change and human activity affect marine invertebrates. At the same time, he found that little is known about the species and their way of life in the Salish Sea: before this study, only 17 sea spider species had been reliably documented there.<\/p>\n
Scientists have described nearly 1,400 species of these animals worldwide. Despite their name, sea spiders are not true spiders but belong to a related group of arthropods that also includes scorpions and horseshoe crabs.<\/p>\n
Describing these newly discovered shallow-water inhabitants will help document the Salish Sea\u2019s biodiversity more fully. This is especially important for its coastline, where many people live and human activity is expanding rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close look at shallow waters between Canada and the United States uncovered creatures with striking features\u2014and raised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,43,283481,141],"class_list":["post-627042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-salish-sea-sea-spiders-new-sea-spider-species-marine-biodiversity-callipallene-pilosuspedes-tanystylum-kiixin","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}