gonyleptidæ

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A family of arachnids with a broad depressed body and spinose palps and femora. They resemble Phalangiidæ, but the body is larger and more angular, the legs are less attenuate and shorter, the cephalothorax is disproportionally large, and the pedipalps are highly developed. The hind legs are separate from the other pairs, and the tarsi are not multi-articulate. See cut under Phrixia.