Plutonodomus

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Plutonodomus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Prodidominae
Genus: Plutonodomus
Cooke, 1964 [1]
Species:
P. kungwensis
Binomial name
Plutonodomus kungwensis
Cooke, 1964

Plutonodomus is a monotypic genus of Tanzanian long-spinneret ground spiders containing the single species, Plutonodomus kungwensis. It was first described by J. A. L. Cooke in 1964, [2] and is only found in Tanzania. [1] It was transferred to the ground spiders in 2018, [3] then returned to Prodidominae in 2022. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Cooke, J. A. L. (1964). "A revisionary study of some spiders of the rare family Prodidomidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 142: 257–305.
  3. Azevedo, G. H. F; Griswold, C. E.; Santos, A. J. (2018). "Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae)". Cladistics. 34 (6): 614. doi: 10.1111/cla.12226 .