Pleorotus

Pleorotus was a monotypic genus of Seychelloise huntsman spiders containing the single species, Pleorotus braueri. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898,[3] and was endemic to the Seychelles.[2] The description was based on a single male collected on Mahe Island in 1894, but none have been found in later collections, and it has been declared extinct.[1]

Pleorotus
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Sparassidae
Genus:	†Pleorotus Simon, 1898[2]
Species:	†P. braueri
Binomial name
†Pleorotus braueri Simon, 1898

See also

• List of Sparassidae species

Further reading

• Benoit, P. L. G. (1978). "Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P. L. G. Benoit - J. J. Van Mol 1972). Araneae Sparassidae". Revue Zoologique Africaine. 92: 687.
• Jäger, P.; Kunz, D. (2005). "An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 85: 166.
• Saaristo, M. I. (2010), "Araneae", in Gerlach, J.; Marusik, Y. M. (eds.), Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands, p. 219

References

1. Gerlach, J. (2014). "Pleorotus braueri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2014: e.T196288A2443290. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196288A2443290.en. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
2. "Gen. Pleorotus Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
3. Simon, E. (1898). "Etudes arachnologiques. 29e Mémoire. XLVI. Arachnides recueillis en 1895 par M. le Dr A. Brauer (de l'Université de Marburg) aux îles Séchelles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 66: 370–388.