Biology:Desis (spider)
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Desis | |
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| Desis japonica, female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Desidae |
| Genus: | Desis Walckenaer, 1837[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793)
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| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Desis is a genus of intertidal spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[2] It is found in Australasia, the Pacific, Japan, eastern and southern Africa, and India. They are truly marine spiders, living in the intertidal zone and only emerging at night on the ebb tide to hunt for invertebrates and small fish. In the day and during high tides, they hide in an air chamber sealed with silk.[3][4][5]
Species
(As of May 2019) it contains fourteen species:[1]
- Desis bobmarleyi Baehr, Raven & Harms, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
- Desis crosslandi Pocock, 1903 – Tanzania (Zanzibar), Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte
- Desis formidabilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) – Namibia, South Africa
- Desis galapagoensis Hirst, 1925 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Desis gardineri Pocock, 1904 – India (Laccadive Is.)
- Desis inermis Gravely, 1927 – India
- Desis japonica Yaginuma, 1956 – Japan
- Desis kenyonae Pocock, 1902 – Australia (Victoria, Tasmania)
- Desis marina (Hector, 1877) – New Caledonia, New Zealand (mainland, Chatham Is.)
- Desis martensi L. Koch, 1872 – Malaysia
- Desis maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793) (type) – New Guinea, New Caledonia
- Desis risbeci Berland, 1931 – New Caledonia
- Desis tangana Roewer, 1955 – East Africa
- Desis vorax L. Koch, 1872 – Samoa
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Desis Walckenaer, 1837. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/711. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ↑ Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell01walc.
- ↑ "Desis sp. Marine Spiders". http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2464.
- ↑ Baehr, B.C.; Raven, R.; Harms, D. (2017). "'High Tide or Low Tide': Desis bobmarleyi sp. n., a new spider from coral reefs in Australia's Sunshine State and its relative from Sāmoa (Araneae, Desidae, Desis)". Evolutionary Systematics 1: 111–120. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.1.15735.
- ↑ Nyffeler, M.; Pusey, B.J. (2014). "Fish Predation by Semi-Aquatic Spiders: A Global Pattern". PLOS ONE 9 (6): e99459. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099459. PMID 24940885. Bibcode: 2014PLoSO...999459N.
Wikidata ☰ Q3024452 entry
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