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Euctenizidae

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The Euctenizidae are a family of mygalomorph spiders. Originally created as a subfamily of Cyrtaucheniidae by Robert Raven in 1985, it was established as a family by Bond et al. in 2012.

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Vinony files it under Euctenizidae and Mygalomorphae families.

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Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyEuctenizidae
Observations recorded2,113

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2
Family
Euctenizidae
Collections
UNM, DMNS
Recorded in
United States, Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Mygalomorphae
Image
Aptostichus female.jpg
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taxon name
Euctenizidae
Commons category
Euctenizidae
topic's main category
Category:Euctenizidae
taxon rank
family
taxon common name
Wafer-lid trapdoor spiders
taxonomic type
Eucteniza
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  • Distribution
  • Genera
  • See also
  • References
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The Euctenizidae are a family of mygalomorph spiders. Originally created as a subfamily of Cyrtaucheniidae by Robert Raven in 1985, it was established as a family by Bond et al. in 2012.

They are now considered to be more closely related to Idiopidae.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Euctenizidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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