Xiombarg plaumanni

Xiombarg plaumanni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Oonopidae
Genus:	Xiombarg Brignoli, 1979 [1]
Species:	X. plaumanni
Binomial name
Xiombarg plaumanni Brignoli, 1979 [1]

Xiombarg plaumanni is a species of goblin spider occurring in southeastern Brazil and adjacent Argentina. It is the only species in the genus Xiombarg. ^[1] Italian arachnologist Paolo Marcello Brignoli described X. plaumanni in 1979, naming the genus after Xiombarg, a character in Michael Moorcock novels. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. "Gen. Xiombarg Brignoli, 1979". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
2. Brignoli, P. M. (1979). "Ragni del Brasile V. Due nuovi generi e quattro nuove specie dello stato di Santa Catarina (Araneae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie (in Italian). 8: 913–924. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.82348 .
3. Platnick, N. I.; Brescovit, A. D. (1995). "On Unicorn, a new genus of the spider family Oonopidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3152): 1–12.