Turretia

Turretia is a monotypic genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae containing the single species, Turretia dugdalei. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985,[2] and is only found on the Polynesian Islands.[1]

Turretia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Orsolobidae
Genus: Turretia
Forster & Platnick, 1985[1]
Species:
T. dugdalei
Binomial name
Turretia dugdalei

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Turretia Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.


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