Biology:Goloboffia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Goloboffia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Migidae
Genus: Goloboffia
Griswold & Ledford, 2001[1]
Species

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Goloboffia is a genus of spiders in the family Migidae. It was first described in 2001 by Griswold and Ledford to accommodate the single species Goloboffia vellardi, found in Chile. In 2019, more species were described.[2] (As of September 2020), five species were accepted:[1]

  • Goloboffia biberi Ferretti, Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2019 – Chile
  • Goloboffia griswoldi Ferretti, Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2019 – Chile
  • Goloboffia megadeth Ferretti, Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2019 – Chile
  • Goloboffia pachelbeli Ferretti, Ríos-Tamayo & Goloboff, 2019 – Chile
  • Goloboffia vellardi (Zapfe, 1961) (type species) – Chile

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Goloboffia Griswold & Ledford, 2001". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1926. 
  2. Ferretti, N.; Ríos-Tamayo, D.; Goloboff, P. (2019), "Four new species of Goloboffia (Mygalomorphae: Migidae) from Chile", Zootaxa 471 (2): 251–268, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.5, PMID 32230687 

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