Melloina is a genus of baldlegged spiders that was first described by Paolo Marcello Brignoli in 1985.[3] As of June 2019[update] it contains only three species, found only in Panama and Venezuela: M. gracilis, M. rickwesti, and M. santuario.[1]
| Melloina | |
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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: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Melloina Brignoli, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. gracilis (Schenkel, 1953)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Melloina Brignoli, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. p. 112.
- ^ Brignoli, P. M. (1985). "On some generic homonymies in spiders (Araneae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 6 (9): 380.