Biology:Melloina

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Melloina
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Melloina
Brignoli, 1985[1]
Type species
M. gracilis
(Schenkel, 1953)
Species
  • Bertani, 2013 – Venezuela (Schenkel, 1953) – Venezuela
  • M. rickwesti M. gracilis
  • Raven, 1999 – Panama M. santuario
Synonyms[1]
  • Glabropelma Raven, 1985[2]

Melloina is a genus of baldlegged spiders that was first described by Paolo Marcello Brignoli in 1985.[3] (As of June 2019) it contains only three species, found only in Panama and Venezuela: M. gracilis, M. rickwesti, and M. santuario.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Melloina Brignoli, 1985. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2247. Retrieved 2019-07-04. 
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. p. 112. 
  3. Brignoli, P. M. (1985). "On some generic homonymies in spiders (Araneae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6 (9): 380. 

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