Synotaxidae
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Superfamily: | Araneoidea |
| Family: | Synotaxidae Simon, 1894 |
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| Diversity | |
| 13 genera, 68 species | |
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The Synotaxidae are a spider family with 68 described species in 13 genera.
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[edit] Distribution
Species of this family occur in Central and South America, New Zealand and Australia.
[edit] Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
- Pahorinae Forster, Platnick & Coddington, 1990 — endemic to New Zealand
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- Nomaua Forster, 1990
- Pahora Forster, 1990
- Pahoroides Forster, 1990
- Runga Forster, 1990
- Wairua Forster, 1990
- Physogleninae Petrunkevitch, 1928
- Synotaxinae Simon, 1894
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- Calcarsynotaxus Wunderlich, 1995 — Australia
- Chileotaxus Platnick, 1990 — Chile
- Synotaxus Simon, 1895 — South America
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Agnarsson I. 2003b. The phylogenetic placement and circumscription of the genus Synotaxus (Araneae: Synotaxidae) with a description of a new species from Guyana, and notes on theridioid phylogeny. Invertebrate Systematics 17(6): 719-734. PDF (Synotaxus waiwai)
- Eberhard, W.G. (1995). The web and building behavior of Synotaxus ecuadorensis (Araneae, Synotaxidae). J. Arachnol. 23:25-30. PDF
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