Biology:Pterinochilus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pterinochilus
Pterinochilus murinus.jpg
Pterinochilus murinus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Pterinochilus
Pocock, 1897[1]
Type species
P. vorax
Pocock, 1897
Species

10, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Pterinochilides Strand, 1920[2]

Pterinochilus is a genus of baboon spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3] They are found all throughout Africa

Species

(As of July 2022) it contains ten species, all found in Africa:[1]

In synonymy

Formerly included

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Pterinochilus Pocock, 1897. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3418. Retrieved 2020-06-08. 
  2. Laurent, R. (1946). "Notes arachnologiques africaines II.-Sur quelques théraphosides du Congo Belge (Ischnocolinae, Eumenophorinae, Selenocosmiinae)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 39: 323. 
  3. Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65 (3): 46–48. 

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