Biology:Mallecolobus

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Short description: A genus of spiders in the family Orsolobidae

Mallecolobus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Mallecolobus
Forster & Platnick, 1985[1]
Type species
M. malacus
Forster & Platnick, 1985
Species

4, see text

Mallecolobus is a genus of Chile an araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains four species, found only in Chile :[1]

  • Mallecolobus malacus Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – Chile
  • Mallecolobus maullin Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Chile
  • Mallecolobus pedrus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Chile
  • Mallecolobus sanus Forster & Platnick, 1985 – Chile

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Mallecolobus Forster & Platnick, 1985. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2198. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 181: 1–230. 

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