Brachionopus

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Brachionopus
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female B. robustus
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B. pretoriae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Brachionopus
Pocock, 1897 [1]
Type species
B. robustus
Pocock, 1897
Species

4, see text

Brachionopus is a genus of South African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. [2] It was transferred to the Theraphosidae from the Barychelidae in 1985. [3]

Contents

All described species are endemic to South Africa. [1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes four species: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  2. ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 65 (3): 724–774. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.
  3. ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 112.


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