Brachionopus

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]

Brachionopus
Scientific classification
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

5, see text

Species

As of December 2019 it contains five species, found in South Africa:[1]

  • Brachionopus annulatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
  • Brachionopus leptopelmiformis Strand, 1907 – South Africa
  • Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897 (type) – South Africa
  • Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
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See also

References
  1. "Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  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.
  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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