Acanthogonatus

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Acanthogonatus
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Acanthogonatus francki
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Pycnothelidae
Genus: Acanthogonatus
Karsch, 1880 [1]
Type species
A. francki
Karsch, 1880
Species

30, see text

Synonyms [1]

Acanthogonatus is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880. [4] Originally placed with the brushed trapdoor spiders, [4] it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, [3] then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020. [5]

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Species

As of October 2023 it contains thirty species, found in Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile: [1]

Formerly included:

Nomen dubium

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Acanthogonatus Karsch, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  2. Gerschman de P., B. S.; Schiapelli, R. D. (1970). "Discusión de los caracteres válidos en la sistemática de las aranas Theraphosomorphae". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 41: 152.
  3. 1 2 Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 83.
  4. 1 2 Karsch, F. (1880). "Arachnologische Blätter (Decas I)". Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften. Dritte Folge. 5: 373–409.
  5. Opatova, V.; et al. (2020). "Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data". Systematic Biology. 69 (4): 701–702. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syz064 . PMID   31841157.

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