Paratupua is a monotypic genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae found in Victoria, Australia.[1] It contains the single species, Paratupua grayi. Though it's sometimes misspelled Paratupa,[2] the correct spelling is "Paratupua".[2][1]
| Paratupua | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Physoglenidae |
| Genus: | Paratupua Platnick, 1990[1] |
| Species: | P. grayi
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| Binomial name | |
| Paratupua grayi Platnick, 1990
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Both genus and species were first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1990,[2] who placed it with the Synotaxidae. In 2017, it was moved to the Physoglenidae.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Paratupua Platnick, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ a b c Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
- ^ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728.
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