Dupérré, Nadine;Tapia, Elicio
Naatlo
Sign in to saveNaatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyTheridiosomatidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- Family
- Theridiosomatidae
- Collections
- MCZ, MPEG
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Trinidad And Tobago, Venezuela, Honduras, Brasil
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Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.
==Behaviour== They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey. Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.
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