Corasoides
| Corasoides | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Desidae |
| Genus: | Corasoides Butler, 1929[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. australis Butler, 1929 | |
| Species | |
|
10, see text | |
Corasoides is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1929.[2] Originally placed with the Agelenidae,[2] it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 1973,[3] and to the Desidae after a 2017 genetic study.[4]
Species
[edit]As of September 2019[update] it contains ten species, found in Australia and Papua New Guinea:[1]
- Corasoides angusi Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
- Corasoides australis Butler, 1929 (type) – Australia
- Corasoides cowanae Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
- Corasoides motumae Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Corasoides mouldsi Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland)
- Corasoides nebula Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
- Corasoides nimbus Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
- Corasoides occidentalis Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Corasoides stellaris Humphrey, 2017 – Papua New Guinea
- Corasoides terania Humphrey, 2017 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Corasoides Butler, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- 1 2 Butler, L. S. G. (1929). "Studies in Victorian spiders. No. 1". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 42: 41–52.
- ↑ Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 128.
- ↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling" (PDF). Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.