Cryptoforis
| Cryptoforis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Cryptoforis Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. hughesae Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020
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| Species | |
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18, see text | |
Cryptoforis is a genus of armoured trapdoor spiders. It is endemic to Australia.[1] It was first described by Jeremy Wilson, Michael Rix and Robert Raven in 2020.[2]
Species
[edit]As of December 2021[update] the genus contained eighteen species from New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Tasmania (TAS) or Victoria (VIC):[1]
- C. absona Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
- C. arenaria Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
- C. cairncross Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
- C. cassisi Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
- C. celata Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
- C. cooloola Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
- C. fallax Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
- C. grayi Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW
- C. hickmani Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – TAS
- C. hughesae Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020 (type) – QLD
- C. mainae Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – NSW, QLD
- C. montana Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
- C. monteithi Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
- C. tasmanica (Hickman, 1928) – TAS
- C. victoriensis (Main, 1995) – VIC
- C. woondum Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – QLD
- C. xenophila Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – TAS
- C. zophera Wilson, Raven & Rix, 2021 – VIC
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Cryptoforis Wilson, Rix & Raven, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ Wilson, J. D.; Raven, R. J.; Schmidt, D. J.; et al. (2020). "Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia's golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini)". Cladistics. 36 (6): 543–568. doi:10.1111/cla.12415. PMID 34618949. S2CID 225677893.
Further reading
[edit]- Wilson, J. D.; Rix, M. G.; Schmidt, D. J.; et al. (2021). "Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern Australian mesic zone". Journal of Arachnology. 49 (1): 28–90. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-18-100. S2CID 234364778.
- Rix, M. G.; Raven, R. J.; Main, B. Y.; et al. (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (5): 566–634. doi:10.1071/IS16065. S2CID 90787136.
- Raven, R. J.; Wishart, G. (2006). "The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: 531–557.
- Main, B. Y. (1995). "Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae)". The Victorian Naturalist. 112: 202–207.