Biology:Echemella

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Echemella
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Echemella
Strand, 1906[1]
Type species
E. quinquedentata
Strand, 1906
Species

6, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Allodrassus Strand, 1906[2]
  • Maniana Strand, 1906[2]

Echemella is a genus of African ground spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1906.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains six species, mostly from Ethiopia:[1]

  • Echemella occulta (Benoit, 1965) – Congo
  • Echemella pavesii (Simon, 1909) – Ethiopia
  • Echemella quinquedentata Strand, 1906 (type) – Ethiopia
  • Echemella sinuosa Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007 – Ethiopia
  • Echemella strandi (Caporiacco, 1940) – Ethiopia
  • Echemella tenuis Murphy & Russell-Smith, 2007 – Ethiopia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Echemella Strand, 1906". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/926. Retrieved 2019-06-04. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Murphy, J.; Russell-Smith, A. (2007). "A revision of the spider genus Echemella Strand 1906 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)". Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 3: 16. 
  3. Strand, E. (1906). "Diagnosen nordafrikanischer, hauptsächlich von Carlo Freiherr von Erlanger gesammelter Spinnen.". Zoologischer Anzeiger 30: 655–690. 

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