Carathea
Sign in to saveCarathea is a genus of Tasmanian spiders within the family Malkaridae that was named and first described by R. J. Moran in 1986. The name comes from the Australian aboriginal word for "sister". The type species is C. parawea. The features unique to spiders of this genus include a thin tip to the conductor (a sclerite in the male palpal bulb), the absence of "horns" on the carapace, and, in females, the internal genitalia are large and less compact, usually only containing three or four coils.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Carathea is referenced by 2 other articles, and connects out to Animalia, Araneae and Tasmania.
Vinony files it under Araneomorphae genera, Endemic fauna of Tasmania and Spiders of Australia.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyMalkaridae
Carathea is een geslacht van spinnen uit de familie Malkaridae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- Family
- Malkaridae
- Collections
- NMV, AM, QM, WAM, QVMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Malkaridae
Show 5 more facts
- taxon name
- Carathea
- taxon rank
- genus
- endemic to
- Tasmania
- taxon author citation
- Moran, 1986
- taxonomic type
- Carathea parawea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Carathea is a genus of Tasmanian spiders within the family Malkaridae that was named and first described by R. J. Moran in 1986. The name comes from the Australian aboriginal word for "sister". The type species is C. parawea. The features unique to spiders of this genus include a thin tip to the conductor (a sclerite in the male palpal bulb), the absence of "horns" on the carapace, and, in females, the internal genitalia are large and less compact, usually only containing three or four coils.
==References==
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