- Toticoryx
Taxobox
name = "Toticoryx"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia =Salticidae
genus = "Toticoryx"
genus_authority = Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Toticoryx
diversity = 1 species
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species = "T. exilis"
binomial = "Toticoryx exilis"
binomial_authority = Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002"Toticoryx" is a
spider genus of theSalticidae family (jumping spiders). Its single described species is found inGuinea .Name
The describers state that the genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters. "exilis" is Latin for "slender", referring to the spider's body shape.
Appearance
This spider is only 3mm long and very flat. The habitus resembles "
Pseudicius ".References
* (2002): Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea. "Zoosystema" 24(2):283-307. [http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z02n2a5.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".
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