Biology:Brachionopus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Brachionopus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Brachionopus
Pocock, 1897[1]
Type species
B. robustus
Pocock, 1897
Species

4, see text

Brachionopus is a genus of South Africa n tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[2] It was transferred to the Theraphosidae from the Barychelidae in 1985.[3]

Species

(As of June 2020) it contains 4 species, found in South Africa :[1]

  • Brachionopus annulatus Purcell, 1903South Africa
  • Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
  • Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897 (type) – South Africa
  • Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3329. Retrieved 2020-01-31. 
  2. Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65 (3): 724–774. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x. https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?showContent=true&id=107640. 
  3. Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 112. 

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