Chasmocephalon is a genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Anapidae, first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1889.[2]
| Chasmocephalon | |
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| Male Chasmocephalon neglectum | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| Species | |
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8, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] 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
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Chasmocephalon O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
- ^ 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.