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Apomastus

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Apomastus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Euctenizidae
Genus: Apomastus
Bond & Opell, 2002[1]
Type species
A. schlingeri
Bond & Opell, 2002
Species

Apomastus is a genus of North American mygalomorph spiders in the family Euctenizidae, and was first described by Jason Bond & B. D. Opell in 2002.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in the Los Angeles Basin of southern California:[3] A. kristenae and A. schlingeri.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Apomastus Bond & Opell, 2002". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  2. ^ Bond, J. E.; Opell, B. D. (2002). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of the genera of south-western North American Euctenizinae trapdoor spiders and their relatives (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 136 (3): 487–534. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00035.x.
  3. ^ "Genus Apomastus". BugGuide. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
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