Acanthogonatus chilechico

Acanthogonatus chilechico
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Nemesiidae
Genus: Acanthogonatus
Species: A. chilechico
Binomial name
Acanthogonatus chilechico
Goloboff, 1995

Acanthogonatus chilechico is a mygalomorph spider of Chile, its name arising from its type locality: Chile Chico, Valdivia, Region X (de los Lagos), Chile.[1] This species is most similar to A. notatus, but is distinguished by a less developed embolar flange and by having the basal portion of the bulb narrower in lateral view, and the presence of more numerous spines on its metatarsus I.

Description

Distribution

It is known to habitate only in the type locality.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Goloboff, Pablo A. "A revision of the South American spiders of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Part 1, Species from Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 224." (1995).

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