Biology:Plesiothele
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Plesiothele | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Hexathelidae |
| Genus: | Plesiothele Raven, 1978[1] |
| Species: | P. fentoni
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| Binomial name | |
| Plesiothele fentoni (Hickman, 1936)
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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.
- ↑ Raven, R. J. (1978). "Systematics of the spider subfamily Hexathelinae (Dipluridae: Mygalomorphae: Arachnida).". Australian Journal of Zoology 65 (Suppl): 1–75.
- ↑ 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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