{{Short description|Genus of sea spiders}} {{Automatic Taxobox | name = ''Hedgpethia'' | image = Hedgpethia tibialis (MNHN-IU-2007-4582).jpeg | image_caption = ''Hedgpethia tibialis'' | taxon = Hedgpethia | authority = Turpaeva, 1973 | diversity_link = | diversity = 12 species | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''See text'' }}
'''''Hedgpethia''''' is a genus of sea spiders in the family Colossendeidae. The genus was named after the marine biologist and sea spider specialist Joel Hedgpeth.
It includes the following species :<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134587 |title=''Hedgpethia'' Turpaeva, 1973 |publisher=MarineSpecies.org |date=2006-09-13}}</ref>
*''Hedgpethia articulata'' <small>Loman, 1908</small> — Flores Sea *''Hedgpethia atlantica'' <small>(Stock, 1970)</small> — Josephine Bank, Northwest Africa *''Hedgpethia bicornis'' <small>Losina-Losinsky and Turpaeva, 1958</small> — Pacific Ocean: southeast of Kuril Islands, Okhotsk Sea *''Hedgpethia brevitarsis'' <small>Losina-Losinsky and Turpaeva, 1958</small> — Okhotsk Sea *''Hedgpethia californica'' <small>Hedgpeth, 1939</small> — Pacific Ocean: South California (in green mud) *''Hedgpethia caudata'' <small>Turpaeva, 1993</small> — Pacific Ocean, 3,000 m deep *''Hedgpethia chitinosa'' <small>Hilton, 1943</small> — Pacific Ocean: California coast *''Hedgpethia dampieri'' <small>Child, 1975</small> — Indian Ocean: west of Lancelin Island, Australia *''Hedgpethia dofleini'' <small>Loman, 1911</small> — Pacific Ocean: Misaki, Sagami Bay, Japan *''Hedgpethia magnirostris'' <small>Arnaud and Child, 1988</small> — Indian Ocean: Zululand area, South Africa *''Hedgpethia nasica'' <small>Child, 1994</small> — Pacific Ocean: west of Point Arguelo, California (on otter trawl) *''Hedgpethia tibialis'' <small>Stock, 1991</small> — New Caledonia
==References== <references/> * PycnoBase: [http://www.marinespecies.org/pycnobase/aphia.php?p=browser&id=1358#ct Taxon tree]
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Category:Sea spider genera
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