Biology:Nanoa
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Nanoa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Arthropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Chelicerata |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Arachnida |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Araneae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Araneomorphae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Pimoidae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005[1] |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">N. enana |
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| Nanoa enana Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005[1]
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Nanoa is a sister genus of Pimoa, in the spider family Pimoidae, containing the single species Nanoa enana.
Etymology
Combined from Greek nanos "dwarf" and the ending -oa, which follows the other pimoid genera Pimoa and Weintrauboa. The name enana of the only species means "dwarf" in Spanish.
Description
N. enana is the smallest known pimoid species, with a total body length of only 1.5 mm.
Distribution
N. enana occurs in northern California and southern Oregon.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2384. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- Gustavo Hormiga, Donald J. Buckle & Nikolaj Scharff (2005). "Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (2): 249–262. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x. http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/content/publications/Hormiga%20Buckle%20&%20Scharff_2005.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q13656106 entry
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