Biology:Toxops

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Toxops
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Toxopidae
Genus: Toxops
Hickman, 1940[1]
Species:
T. montanus
Binomial name
Toxops montanus
Hickman, 1940

Toxops is a monotypic genus of Australia n araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae containing the single species, Toxops montanus. It was first described by V. V. Hickman in 1940,[2] and has only been found in Australia .[1] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Toxops Hickman, 1940. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/742. Retrieved 2019-06-01. 
  2. Hickman, V. V. (1940). "The Toxopidae, a new family of spiders.". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1939: 125–130. 
  3. Wheeler, W. C. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics 33 (6): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. 

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