Most excellent Paul . For those who are interested a website has been found
,

http://www.bmi.net/yancey/mollusc.html

this site has many neato images of deep sea critters . all the best ,
ferreter
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Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Sea spiders , a true biazare creature ,


>Sea spiders are a separate class of arthropods, the Pycnogonida.  They are
>generally classified in the subphylum Chelicerata, which also includes
>arachnids, harvestmen, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, horseshoe crabs, and a
>number of less well known small groups.  Therefore they are not closely
>related to isopods, which are crustaceans, and therefore in a different
>subphylum.  Actually they are more closely related to true spiders than to
>crustaceans, though just how closely related they are is not well known.
>Many of them feed on small colonial invertebrates like hydroids and
>bryozoans.  Bizarre is certainly a descriptive term for an animal which has
>almost no body, and is practically all legs.
>Paul M.
>