Chinja

Chinja is a genus of Tanzanian araneomorph spiders in the family Zoropsidae, first described by D. Polotow & C. Griswold in 2018.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species.[1]

Chinja
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zoropsidae
Genus: Chinja
Polotow & Griswold, 2018[1]
Type species
C. chinja Polotow & Griswold, 2018
Species
  • C. chinja Polotow & Griswold, 2018 — Tanzania
  • C. scharffi Polotow & Griswold, 2018 — Tanzania

References
  1. "Gen. Chinja Polotow & Griswold, 2018". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. Polotow, D.; Griswold, C. (2018). "Chinja, a new genus of spider from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Araneae, Zoropsidae)". Zootaxa. 4472 (3): 545–562. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4472.3.7.


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