BOB MARLEY’S INTERTIDAL SPIDER
WHAT IS IT? There are plenty of sea spiders (which aren’t spiders, or even arachnids, but members of a separate group called pycnogonids), ds), but precious few spiders that live in the sea. Bob b Marley’s intertidal spider, which has just been described by reggae-fan biologists, is one of them. m.
WHERE IS IT? Desis bobmarleyi hunts on intertidal rocks and reefs on Australia’s Queensland coast. It’s not one to hurry. Rather er than beat a retreat from the incoming tide, it hunkers down in an empty barnacle shell.