Biology:Naatlo

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Naatlo
Toile de Naatlo.jpg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Naatlo
Coddington, 1986[1]
Type species
N. sutila
Coddington, 1986
Species

7, see text

Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]

Behaviour

They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.[3] Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.[4]

Species

(As of June 2020) it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:[1]

  • Naatlo fauna (Simon, 1897) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
  • Naatlo maturaca Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
  • Naatlo mayzana Dupérré & Tapia, 2017 – Ecuador
  • Naatlo serrana Rodrigues & Lise, 2008 – Brazil
  • Naatlo splendida (Taczanowski, 1874) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. [note, date wrong in several works as 1879]
  • Naatlo sutila Coddington, 1986 (type) – Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Argentina
  • Naatlo sylvicola (Hingston, 1932) – Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). Gen. Naatlo Coddington, 1986. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3573. Retrieved 2020-07-18. 
  2. Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422. 
  3. Yeager, Ashley (Nov 1, 2022). "Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do". The Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/slingshot-spiders-pull-more-gs-than-cheetahs-68097. 
  4. Alexander, Symone; Bhamla, Saad (2020). "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs". Current Biology 30 (16): 928-929. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.076. 

Further reading

  • Wienskoski, E. (2010). "The genus Naatlo (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae): distribution and taxonomic history". Revista Brasileira de Biociências 8 (2): 131–138. 
  • Rodrigues, E. N. L.; Lise, A. A. (2008). "Description of two new species of Naatlo (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) from Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25 (2): 299–308. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752008000200017. 
  • Archer, A. F. (1953). "Studies in the orbweaving spiders (Argiopidae)". American Museum Novitates 1622: 1–27. 
  • Dupérré, N.; Tapia, E. (2017). "On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species". Zootaxa 4341 (3): 375–399. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3. PMID 29245661. 

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