HORG

Coronaspinus gregigelida

Coronaspinus gregigelida

“Greg’s frozen crown of thorns”
Kingdom
Microsynthera
Phylum
Plasticae
Class
Occlupanida
Order
Orthogonidectes
Family
Novenocentridae
Genus
Coronaspinus
Species
chaos
External morphology

Thick integument, lateral palps. 43 mm x 33.5 mm.

S. Lucio from the Foundation for Occlupanid Research and Communication discovered a second species of Novenocentrid on a bag of Ice in Massachusetts. Species named in honor of a co-discoverer. Though its oral groove is smaller than C. chaos, C. gregigelida still wields a signature array of unyielding dential spines. Daring field researchers bound for surveys of North American ice-boxes are therefore cautioned to handle this occlupanid with due care, and to watch their fingers.