Spider-like creatures stretching 1m across that live in special bell-like chambers in the ocean phantom. In exchange for being fed by the ocean phantom they defend the phantom from attack from the reef glider. They slash at the attackers with their large poisoned jaws, inflicting gaping wounds.
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| - Spider-like creatures stretching 1m across that live in special bell-like chambers in the ocean phantom. In exchange for being fed by the ocean phantom they defend the phantom from attack from the reef glider. They slash at the attackers with their large poisoned jaws, inflicting gaping wounds.
- In the face of such an assault as by a reef glider, the ocean phantom has evolved a brilliant symbiotic defense mechanism. Some of the suction bells of ocean phantoms have ceased function as hunters. Instead, they are troop carriers. Should a reef g lider be unlucky enough to brush against one of these modified bells, a horde of spindly-legged spindletroopers, with their slashing chelae and slicing chelicerae, emerges. It is an army come to the rescue of its host. When hungry, an ocean phantom-guarding spindletrooper scratches at the walls of its home bell, stimulating it to regur
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| - In bells on the ocean phantom
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| - Remains of the ocean phantom’s prey
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| - In the face of such an assault as by a reef glider, the ocean phantom has evolved a brilliant symbiotic defense mechanism. Some of the suction bells of ocean phantoms have ceased function as hunters. Instead, they are troop carriers. Should a reef g lider be unlucky enough to brush against one of these modified bells, a horde of spindly-legged spindletroopers, with their slashing chelae and slicing chelicerae, emerges. It is an army come to the rescue of its host. Throughout history (sea spiders in general dating back to the Late Cambrian), shallow water sea spiders have been small, ranging in size from 1 millimeter to over 35 inches in some deep water species. With a legspan of 12 inches (30 centimeters), the spindletrooper is far larger than most of its relatives. Before forming their symbiotic relationship with the ocean phantoms, spindletroopers live on the algal reefs, occasionally raiding an ocean phantom's suction bells for food. Soon some begin to remain safely inside the bells for longer periods of time. Eventually those particular spindletroopers adapt to fold up and fit nearly inside a suction bell, which in turn modifies itself to house and feed the spindletrooper. When hungry, an ocean phantom-guarding spindletrooper scratches at the walls of its home bell, stimulating it to regur gitate food from the rest of the colony. In return, the spindletrooper provides defense, coming out to fight when its ocean phantom colony is threatened. Spindletroopers have large chelicerae full of sharp fangs, capable of delivering an injection of painful venom. With these and their long chelae, they slash at anything that attacks their ocean phantom home.
- Spider-like creatures stretching 1m across that live in special bell-like chambers in the ocean phantom. In exchange for being fed by the ocean phantom they defend the phantom from attack from the reef glider. They slash at the attackers with their large poisoned jaws, inflicting gaping wounds.
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