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Genus of spiders

Pleorotus
Conservation status

Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: †Pleorotus
Simon, 1898
Species: †P. braueri
Binomial name
†Pleorotus braueri
Simon, 1898

Pleorotus was a monotypic genus of Seychelloise huntsman spiders containing the single species, Pleorotus braueri. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898, and was endemic to the Seychelles. The description was based on a single male collected on Mahe Island in 1894, but none have been found in later collections, and it has been declared extinct.

See also

References

  1. ^ Gerlach, J. (2014). "Pleorotus braueri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. IUCN: e.T196288A2443290. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T196288A2443290.en. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Gen. Pleorotus Simon, 1898". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  3. Simon, E. (1898). "Etudes arachnologiques. 29e Mémoire. XLVI. Arachnides recueillis en 1895 par M. le Dr A. Brauer (de l'Université de Marburg) aux îles Séchelles". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 66: 370–388.

Further reading

  • Benoit, P. L. G. (1978). "Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P. L. G. Benoit - J. J. Van Mol 1972). Araneae Sparassidae". Revue Zoologique Africaine. 92: 687.
  • Jäger, P.; Kunz, D. (2005). "An illustrated key to genera of African huntsman spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Sparassidae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 85: 166.
  • Saaristo, M. I. (2010), "Araneae", in Gerlach, J.; Marusik, Y. M. (eds.), Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands, p. 219
Taxon identifiers
Pleorotus
Pleorotus braueri


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