Biology:Plesiothele

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Plesiothele
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Hexathelidae
Genus: Plesiothele
Raven, 1978[1]
Species:
P. fentoni
Binomial name
Plesiothele fentoni
(Hickman, 1936)

Plesiothele is a monotypic genus of Australia n funnel-web spiders containing the single species, Plesiothele fentoni. It was first described by Robert John Raven in 1978,[2] and has only been found in Australia .[1] Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Plesiothele Raven, 1978. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1069. Retrieved 2019-06-11. 
  2. Raven, R. J. (1978). "Systematics of the spider subfamily Hexathelinae (Dipluridae: Mygalomorphae: Arachnida).". Australian Journal of Zoology 65 (Suppl): 1–75. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology 8: 256. 

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