Cataxia
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| Cataxia | |
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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: | Cataxia Rainbow, 1914[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. maculata Rainbow, 1914
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| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Cataxia is a genus of Australian armoured trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Joseph Rainbow in 1914.[3]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] the genus contained fifteen species from the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), Victoria (VIC) or Western Australia (WA):[1]
- Cataxia babindaensis Main, 1969 – QLD
- Cataxia barrettae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
- Cataxia bolganupensis (Main, 1985) – WA
- Cataxia colesi Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
- Cataxia cunicularis (Main, 1983) – QLD
- Cataxia dietrichae Main, 1985 – QLD
- Cataxia eungellaensis Main, 1969 – QLD
- Cataxia maculata Rainbow, 1914 (type) – QLD
- Cataxia melindae Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
- Cataxia pallida (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) – QLD
- Cataxia pulleinei (Rainbow, 1914) – NSW, QLD
- Cataxia sandsorum Rix, Bain, Main & Harvey, 2017 – WA
- Cataxia spinipectoris Main, 1969 – QLD
- Cataxia stirlingi (Main, 1985) – WA
- Cataxia victoriae (Main, 1985) – VIC
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Cataxia Rainbow, 1914". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ a b Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 154.
- ^ Rainbow, W. J. (1914). "Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae". Records of the Australian Museum. 10: 187–270. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.10.1914.901.
Further reading
[edit]- Rix, M.G.; et al. (2017). "The spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape". Journal of Arachnology. 45: 395–423. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-012.1. S2CID 198160401.