Chileotaxus

Chileotaxus is a monotypic genus of Chilean araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae containing the single species, Chileotaxus sans. It was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1990,[2] and is found in Chile.[1] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 1973.[3]

Chileotaxus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Genus: Chileotaxus
Platnick, 1990[1]
Species:
C. sans
Binomial name
Chileotaxus sans
Platnick, 1990

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Chileotaxus Platnick, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. 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: 95.
  3. Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165.


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