Deep Water Sea Spider

DEEP WATER SEA SPIDER by the artist Azzurro
PYCNOGONIDA
'Soft Jelly Gut Sucker'
Up to 70 cm legspan
Grow to be much larger at depths than their reef-dwelling cousins.
Shares an ancestor with crabs and spiders but has been evolving independently for hundreds of millions of years.
Uses its legs to breathe, and sucks guts out of prey with a long proboscis.
Have been known to 'ride' other creatures.