Nanocambridgea

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Nanocambridgea
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N. gracilipes, male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Nanocambridgea
Forster & Wilton, 1973 [1]
Species:
N. gracilipes
Binomial name
Nanocambridgea gracilipes
Forster & Wilton, 1973

Nanocambridgea is a monotypic genus of intertidal spiders containing the single species, Nanocambridgea gracilipes. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973, [2] and is found on New Zealand. [1] Originally placed with the Stiphidiidae, [2] it was moved to the Desidae after a 2017 genetic study. [3] A male described as N. grandis in 2000 [4] was synonymized with Cambridgea reinga in 2011. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Nanocambridgea Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. 1 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.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi: 10.1111/cla.12182 . PMID   34724759. S2CID   35535038.
  4. ↑ Blest, A. D.; Vink, C. (2000). "New Zealand spiders: Stiphidiidae". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 13 (Suppl): 21.
  5. ↑ Vink, C.; et al. (2011). "Reuniting males and females: redescriptions of Nuisiana arboris (Marples 1959) and Cambridgea reinga Forster & Wilton 1973 (Araneae: Desidae, Stiphidiidae)". Zootaxa. 2739: 45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2739.1.4.


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