| Scalidognathus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Scalidognathus Karsch, 1892 |
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| S. radialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) | |
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Scalidognathus is a genus of Asian armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1892. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.
Species
As of May 2019 it contains six species:
- Scalidognathus montanus (Pocock, 1900) – India
- Scalidognathus nigriaraneus Sanap & Mirza, 2011 – India
- Scalidognathus oreophilus Simon, 1892 – Sri Lanka
- Scalidognathus radialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (type) – Sri Lanka
- Scalidognathus seticeps Karsch, 1892 – Sri Lanka
- Scalidognathus tigerinus Sanap & Mirza, 2011 – India
See also
References
- ^ "Gen. Scalidognathus Karsch, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 167.
- Karsch, F. (1892). "Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P. und F. Sarasin". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 36: 267–310.
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