Synotaxus

Synotaxus is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Synotaxidae that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2] Originally placed with the tangle web spiders, it was moved to the Synotaxidae in 2017.[3]

Synotaxus
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Synotaxidae
Genus: Synotaxus
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
S. turbinatus
Simon, 1895
Species

11, see text

Species

As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, and on Trinidad:[1]

  • Synotaxus bonaldoi Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Synotaxus brescoviti Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Synotaxus ecuadorensis Exline, 1950 – Costa Rica to Ecuador
  • Synotaxus itabaiana Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Synotaxus jaraguari Souza, Brescovit & Araujo, 2017 – Brazil
  • Synotaxus leticia Exline & Levi, 1965 – Colombia
  • Synotaxus longicaudatus (Keyserling, 1891) – Brazil
  • Synotaxus monoceros (Caporiacco, 1947) – Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil
  • Synotaxus siolii Santos & Rheims, 2005 – Brazil
  • Synotaxus turbinatus Simon, 1895 (type) – Panama to Ecuador
  • Synotaxus waiwai Agnarsson, 2003 – Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay
gollark: Also, weird floating trains totally count, they are cool.
gollark: If they were cheap enough they would probably be used *everywhere*.
gollark: <@!336962240848855040> Superconducting magnetic energy storage thingies are a useful application, and you could have power grids with significantly lower energy loss.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
gollark: It says here that it's present a bit in seawater, absorbed by algae, and then fish absorb it but don't get rid of it, and it continues going through the food chain.

See also
  • List of Synotaxidae species

References
  1. "Gen. Synotaxus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Simon, E. (1895). "Etudes arachnologiques. 26e. XLI. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'ordre des Araneae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 64: 131–160.
  3. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 96.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.