Biology:Mazax

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Mazax
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Mazax
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898[1]
Type species
M. pax
Reiskind, 1969
Species

7, see text

Mazax is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.[2]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains seven species from the Americas and the Caribbean:[1]

  • Mazax ajax Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
  • Mazax chickeringi Reiskind, 1969 – Jamaica
  • Mazax kaspari Cokendolpher, 1978 – USA
  • Mazax pax Reiskind, 1969 (type) – USA to Panama
  • Mazax ramirezi Rubio & Danişman, 2014 – Argentina
  • Mazax spinosa (Simon, 1898) – Central America, Lesser Antilles
  • Mazax xerxes Reiskind, 1969 – Costa Rica

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Mazax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/553. Retrieved 2019-05-19. 
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1898), "Arachnida. Araneida", Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology 

Wikidata ☰ Q1645634 entry