Gorgyrella
| Gorgyrella | |
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| Gorgyrella sp. "African Red Trapdoor Spider" | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| G. namaquensis Purcell, 1902
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| Species | |
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4, see text | |
Gorgyrella is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1902.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains four species and one subspecies:[1]
- Gorgyrella hirschhorni (Hewitt, 1919) – Zimbabwe
- Gorgyrella inermis Tucker, 1917 – Tanzania
- Gorgyrella namaquensis Purcell, 1902 (type) – South Africa
- Gorgyrella schreineri Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Gorgyrella s. minor (Hewitt, 1916) – South Africa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ Purcell, W. F. (1902). "New South African trap-door spiders of the family Ctenizidae in the collection of the South African Museum". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 11: 348–382. doi:10.1080/21560382.1900.9525972.
External links
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Data related to Gorgyrella at Wikispecies
Media related to Gorgyrella at Wikimedia Commons