Biology:Tugana

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Tugana
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Tugana
Chamberlin, 1948[1]
Type species
T. cavatica
(Bryant, 1940)
Species

4, see text

Synonyms[1]

Tugana is a genus of Caribbean tangled nest spiders first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1948.[3]

Species

(As of April 2019) it contains four species, found in Cuba and Hispaniola:[1]

  • Tugana cavatica (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
  • Tugana crassa (Bryant, 1948) – Hispaniola
  • Tugana cudina Alayón, 1992 – Cuba
  • Tugana infumata (Bryant, 1948) – Hispaniola

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Tugana Chamberlin, 1948". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/117. Retrieved 2019-05-08. 
  2. Alayón G., G. (1992). "El género Tugana (Arachnida: Araneae: Amaurobiidae)". Poeyana 416: 2. 
  3. Chamberlin, R. V. (1948). "The genera of North American Dictynidae.". Bulletin of the University of Utah 38 (15): 1–31. 

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