Biology:Toxopidae
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Short description: Family of spiders
| Toxopidae | |
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| Myro kerguelenensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Toxopidae Hickman, 1940[1] |
| Diversity | |
| 14 genera, 85 species | |
Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940.[2] For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct.[3] A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 2016 led to the family being revived.[4]
Genera
(As of April 2019), the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera:[1]
- Gasparia Marples, 1956 – New Zealand
- Gohia Dalmas, 1917 – New Zealand
- Hapona Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
- Hulua Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
- Jamara Davies, 1995 – Australia
- Laestrygones Urquhart, 1894 – New Zealand, Australia
- Lamina Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
- Midgee Davies, 1995 – Australia
- Myro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 – Australia, New Zealand
- Neomyro Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
- Ommatauxesis Simon, 1903 – Australia
- Otagoa Forster, 1970 – New Zealand
- Toxops Hickman, 1940 – Australia
- Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973 – Australia, New Zealand
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Family: Toxopidae Hickman, 1940". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/122.
- ↑ Hickman, V. V. (1940). The Toxopidae, a new family of spiders. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 1939. pp. 125–130.
- ↑ Jocqué, R. (1994). "Halidae, a new spider family from Madagascar (Araneae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9: 281–289.
- ↑ Wheeler, Ward C.; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Crowley, Louise M.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Goloboff, Pablo A.; Griswold, Charles E.; Hormiga, Gustavo; Prendini, Lorenzo et al. (2016), "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling", Cladistics 33 (6): 574–616, doi:10.1111/cla.12182, PMID 34724759
Wikidata ☰ Q43185760 entry
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