Eucanippe is a genus of Western Australian armored trapdoor spiders first described by Michael Gordon Rix, Robert J. Raven, Barbara York Main, S. E. Harrison, A. D. Austin, S. J. B. Cooper & Mark Stephen Harvey in 2017.[2]
| Eucanippe | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Eucanippe Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. bifida Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017 | |
| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] the genus contained seven species, all from Western Australia:[1]
- Eucanippe absita Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
- Eucanippe agastachys Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
- Eucanippe bifida Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017
- Eucanippe eucla Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
- Eucanippe mallee Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
- Eucanippe mouldsi Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
- Eucanippe nemestrina Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Eucanippe Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
- ^ Rix, M. G.; Raven, R. J.; Main, B. Y.; Harrison, S. E.; Austin, A. D.; Cooper, S. J. B.; Harvey, M. S. (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (5): 566–634. doi:10.1071/IS16065. S2CID 90787136.