| Baalzebub Temporal range:
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| Baalzebub | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiosomatidae |
| Genus: |
Baalzebub Coddington 1986 [1] |
| Type species | |
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B. baubo Coddington, 1986 | |
| Species | |
Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986. [2] Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. [3]
Species
As of March 2020 [update] it contains seven extant and one fossil species: [1]
- B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
- B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
- B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
- B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
- B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
- B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- ?† B. mesozoicum Penney 2014 - Vendée amber, France, Turonian [4] later considered to be stem- Theridiosomatidae [5]
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi: 10.5479/si.00810282.422.
- ^ Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.
- ^ "A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France". Paleontological Contributions. 2014-12-01. doi: 10.17161/pc.1808.15982. ISSN 1946-0279.
- ^ Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic". Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi: 10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 31713947. S2CID 207937170.
External links
"Baalzebub" at the Encyclopedia of Life
| Baalzebub Temporal range:
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| Baalzebub | |
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiosomatidae |
| Genus: |
Baalzebub Coddington 1986 [1] |
| Type species | |
|
B. baubo Coddington, 1986 | |
| Species | |
Baalzebub is a genus of ray spiders first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986. [2] Spiders in this genus typically live in dark environments, like caves. [3]
Species
As of March 2020 [update] it contains seven extant and one fossil species: [1]
- B. acutum Prete, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2016 — Brazil
- B. albonotatus (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto Rico
- B. baubo Coddington, 1986 — Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil
- B. brauni (Wunderlich, 1976) — Australia (Queensland)
- B. nemesis Miller, Griswold & Yin, 2009 — China
- B. rastrarius Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- B. youyiensis Zhao & Li, 2012 — China
- ?† B. mesozoicum Penney 2014 - Vendée amber, France, Turonian [4] later considered to be stem- Theridiosomatidae [5]
References
- ^ a b c "Gen. Baalzebub Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi: 10.5479/si.00810282.422.
- ^ Prete, Pedro; Cizaukas, Igor; Brescovit, Antonio. "A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment.
- ^ "A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France". Paleontological Contributions. 2014-12-01. doi: 10.17161/pc.1808.15982. ISSN 1946-0279.
- ^ Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic". Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi: 10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 31713947. S2CID 207937170.
External links
"Baalzebub" at the Encyclopedia of Life