Tartarus murdochensis
| Tartarus murdochensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Stiphidiidae |
| Genus: | Tartarus |
| Species: | T. murdochensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tartarus murdochensis Gray, 1922
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| Holotype site (AM KS18430 ♀): Phyllistine Flattener Cave (6N194), Hampton Tableland, Nullarbor Plain, WA[1] | |
Tartarus murdochensis is a cave spider from Western Australia, in the family Stiphidiidae.[2][3] The spider was first described in 1992 by Mike Gray.[3]
Name
[edit]The species epithet, murdochensis, refers to its being found in the Murdoch Sink, a submerged cave system in the Nullarbor Plain of Western and Southern Australia.[3]
Conservation status
[edit]In Western Australia, the species is listed as vulnerable.[4][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Occurrence Detail 1100101991 (Holotype of Tartarus murdochensis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ "Species Tartarus murdochensis Gray, 1992". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
- ^ a b c Michael R. Gray (1992). "The troglobitic spider genus Tartarus Gray with a cladistic analysis of Tartarus and Baiami Lehtinen (Araneae: Stiphidiidae)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 113: 168. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q123745775.
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia. "Species: Tartarus murdochensis (Murdoch Sink Cave Spider)". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 2023-12-11.