Tonton is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Microstigmatidae. It was first described by V. Passanha, I. Cizauskas and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2019,[2] and it has only been found in Brazil.[1]
| Tonton | |
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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: | Microstigmatidae |
| Genus: | Tonton Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. itabirito Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019
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| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Species
editAs of April 2022[update] it contains seven species:[1]
- T. emboaba (Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015) – Brazil
- T. ipiau Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
- T. itabirito Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 (type) – Brazil
- T. matodentro Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
- T. queca Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
- T. quiteria Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
- T. sapalo Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Tonton Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
- ^ Passanha, V.; Cizauskas, I.; Brescovit, A. D. (2019). "A new genus of Micromygalinae (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazil, with transfer of Masteria emboaba Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015 and description of six new species". ZooKeys (814): 1–32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.814.29906. PMC 6333731. PMID 30651710.
Further reading
edit- Passanha, V.; Brescovit, A. D. (2018). "On the Neotropical spider subfamily Masteriinae (Araneae, Dipluridae)". Zootaxa. 4463 (1): 1–73. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4463.1.1. PMID 30313452.
- Pedroso, D. R.; Baptista, R. L. C.; Bertani, R. (2015). "A new species of Masteria (Araneae: Dipluridae: Masteriinae) from southeastern Brazil". Zoologia (Curitiba). 32 (1): 59–65. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000100009.