- Calponia harrisonfordi
Taxobox
name = "Calponia harrisonfordi"
image_width = 250px
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Arachnid a
ordo = Araneae
subordo =Araneomorphae
superfamilia =Caponioidea
familia =Caponiidae
genus = "Calponia"
diversity_link = List of Caponiidae species#Calponia
diversity = 1 species
species = "C. harrisonfordi"
binomial = "Calponia harrisonfordi"
binomial_authority = Platnick, 1993"Calponia harrisonfordi" is a species of
spider discovered in1993 by the arachnologistNorman I. Platnick , and named after the film actorHarrison Ford to thank him for narrating a documentary for the London Museum of Natural History. It is the only species of the genus "Calponia", and is one of the most primitive members of the Caponiidae family.Platnick 1993]"C. harrisonfordi" is found in
California in theUnited States . Unlike most members of its family, C. harrisonfordi retains all eight eyes and has few of the family's characteristic distal leg segment modifications. It is roughly 5 mm in length. Much of its physiology is not well understood, but it is thought to eat other spiders.Footnotes
References
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* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".ee also
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Pheidole harrisonfordi
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