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Tonton (spider)

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Genus of spiders

Tonton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Microstigmatidae
Genus: Tonton
Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019
Type species
T. itabirito
Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019
Species

7, see text

Tonton is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Microstigmatidae. It was first described by V. Passanha, I. Cizauskas and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2019, and it has only been found in Brazil.

Species

As of April 2022 it contains seven species:

  • T. emboaba (Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015) – Brazil
  • T. ipiau Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
  • T. itabirito Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 (type) – Brazil
  • T. matodentro Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
  • T. queca Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
  • T. quiteria Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil
  • T. sapalo Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019 – Brazil

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gen. Tonton Passanha, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-11.
  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. PMID 30651710.

Further reading

Taxon identifiers
Tonton


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