Brachionopus
Brachionopus is a genus of South African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[2] It was transferred to the Theraphosidae from the Barychelidae in 1985.[3]
| Brachionopus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Brachionopus Pocock, 1897[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. robustus Pocock, 1897 | |
| Species | |
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5, see text | |
Species
As of December 2019 it contains five species, found in South Africa:[1]
- Brachionopus annulatus Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
- Brachionopus leptopelmiformis Strand, 1907 – South Africa
- Brachionopus pretoriae Purcell, 1904 – South Africa
- Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897 (type) – South Africa
- Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903 – South Africa
See also
References
- "Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
- Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 65 (3): 724–774.
- Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 112.
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