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Corasoides

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Corasoides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Corasoides
Butler, 1929[1]
Type species
C. australis
Butler, 1929
Species

10, see text

Corasoides is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1929.[2] Originally placed with the Agelenidae,[2] it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 1973,[3] and to the Desidae after a 2017 genetic study.[4]

Species

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As of September 2019 it contains ten species, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Corasoides Butler, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ a b Butler, L. S. G. (1929). "Studies in Victorian spiders. No. 1". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 42: 41–52.
  3. ^ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 128.
  4. ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling" (PDF). Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.