Toca (spider)

Toca is a genus of South American wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow & Antônio Brescovit in 2009.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species, both found in Brazil: T. bossanova and T. samba.[1]

Toca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Ctenidae
Genus: Toca
Polotow & Brescovit, 2009[1]
Type species
T. bossanova
Polotow & Brescovit, 2009
Species
  • T. bossanova Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil
  • T. samba Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Toca Polotow & Brescovit, 2009". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  2. Polotow, D.; Brescovit, A. D. (2009). "Description of Toca, a new neotropical spider genus (Araneae, Ctenidae, Calocteninae)". Journal of Arachnology. 37 (2): 243–245. doi:10.1636/a08-24.1.

"Toca" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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