Chasmocephalon

Chasmocephalon is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1889.[2]

Chasmocephalon
Male Chasmocephalon neglectum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Anapidae
Genus: Chasmocephalon
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889[1]
Type species
C. neglectum
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889
Species

8, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eight species:[1]

  • Chasmocephalon acheron Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Victoria)
  • Chasmocephalon alfred Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Victoria)
  • Chasmocephalon eungella Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Chasmocephalon flinders Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Chasmocephalon iluka Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Eastern Australia
  • Chasmocephalon neglectum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Chasmocephalon pemberton Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Chasmocephalon tingle Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Western Australia)

References

  1. "Gen. Chasmocephalon O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1889). "On some new species and a new genus of Araneida". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 57 (1): 34–46. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1889.tb06745.x.


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