Biology:Ctenolophus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Ctenolophus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Ctenolophus
Purcell, 1904[1]
Type species
C. kolbei
(Purcell, 1902)
Species

6, see text

Ctenolophus is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1904.[2] Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.[3]

Species

(As of June 2022) it contains 6 species, all found in South Africa :[1]

  • Ctenolophus cregoei (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus kolbei (Purcell, 1902) (type) – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus oomi Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus pectinipalpis (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
  • Ctenolophus spiricola (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1084. Retrieved 2019-06-12. 
  2. Purcell, W. F. (1904). "Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders.". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15: 115–173. doi:10.1080/21560382.1904.9626437. http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/21040/E000012361.pdf. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 138. 

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