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Desis
Desis is a genus of intertidal spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837. It is found in Australasia, the Pacific, Japan, eastern and southern Africa, and India. They are truly marine spiders, living in the intertidal zone and only emerging at night on the ebb tide to hunt for invertebrates and small fish. In the day and during high tides, they hide in an air chamber sealed with silk.
15 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Marine Spider
speciesDesis marina
Intertidal Spider
speciesDesis martensi
Formidable Shore Spider
speciesDesis formidabilis
Desis kenyonae
speciesDesis kenyonae
Desis bobmarleyi
speciesDesis bobmarleyi
Desis risbeci
speciesDesis risbeci
Desis japonica
speciesDesis japonica
Desis maxillosa
speciesDesis maxillosa
Desis crosslandi
speciesDesis crosslandi
Desis galapagoensis
speciesDesis galapagoensis
Desis vorax
speciesDesis vorax
Desis gardineri
speciesDesis gardineri
Desis inermis
speciesDesis inermis
Desis tangana
speciesDesis tangana
Desis jiaxiangi
speciesDesis jiaxiangi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Desis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57655.