Tonton (spider)

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Tonton
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Microstigmatidae
Genus: Tonton
Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019[1]
Type species
Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019
Species

7, see text

Tonton is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Microstigmatidae, first described by V. Passanha, I. Cizauskas & Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2019.[2]

Species[]

As of April 2019 it contains seven species:[1]

  • (Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015) — Brazil
  • Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 — Brazil
  • Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 — Brazil
  • Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 — Brazil
  • Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 — Brazil
  • Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 — Brazil
  • Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 — Brazil

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Tonton Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. ^ Passanha, V.; Cizauskas, I.; Brescovit, A. D. (2019). "A new genus of Micromygalinae (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazil, with transfer of Masteria emboaba Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015 and description of six new species". ZooKeys. 814: 1–32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.814.29906. PMC 6333731.


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