Biology:Toxopsoides

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Toxopsoides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Toxopidae
Genus: Toxopsoides
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
T. huttoni
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

4, see text

Toxopsoides is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

Species

(As of May 2019) it contains four species:[1]

  • Toxopsoides erici Smith, 2013 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
  • Toxopsoides huttoni Forster & Wilton, 1973 (type) – Southeastern Australia, New Zealand
  • Toxopsoides kathleenae Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Toxopsoides macleayi Smith, 2013 – Australia (New South Wales)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Toxopsoides Forster & Wilton, 1973. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/743. Retrieved 2019-06-01. 
  2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV.". Otago Museum Bulletin 4: 1–309. 
  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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