Toxops
(Redirected from Toxops montanus)
| Toxops | |
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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: | Toxopidae |
| Genus: | Toxops Hickman, 1940[1] |
| Species: | T. montanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Toxops montanus Hickman, 1940
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Toxops is a monotypic genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae containing the single species, Toxops montanus. It was first described by V. V. Hickman in 1940,[2] and has only been found in Australia.[1] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Toxops Hickman, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Hickman, V. V. (1940). "The Toxopidae, a new family of spiders". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 1939: 125–130.
- ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.