Pinoquio is a monotypic genus of South American cellar spiders containing the single species, Pinoquio barauna. It was first described with the name Pinocchio by B. A. Huber & L. S. Carvalho in 2019, after Pinocchio, whose famous nose reminded the authors of the projecting clypeus in P. barauna.[2] However, this name turned out to be a junior homonym that had been used before, for the harvestman genus Pinocchio Mello-Leitão, 1940 (now considered a synonym of Bresslauius Mello-Leitão, 1935). Therefore, the genus name was amended in 2022 to Pinoquio, which is the Portuguese spelling of the name of Collodi's famous character.[3] This genus has only been found in Brazil.[1]
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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: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Pinoquio |
| Species: | P. barauna
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| Binomial name | |
| Pinoquio barauna (Huber & Carvalho, 2019)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019 | |
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Pinoquio Huber & Carvalho, 2022". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ Huber, B. A.; Carvalho, L. S. (2019). "Filling the gaps: descriptions of unnamed species included in the latest molecular phylogeny of Pholcidae (Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4546 (1): 1–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4546.1.1. PMID 30790874. S2CID 73505380.
- ^ Carvalho, L. S.; Huber, B. A. (2022). "A replacement name for Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019 (Araneae: Pholcidae)". Zootaxa. 5162 (1): 97–98. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5162.1.7.
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