Toxops
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Toxopidae
Genus: Toxops
Hickman, 1940[1]
Species:
T. montanus
Binomial name
Toxops montanus
Hickman, 1940

Toxops is a monotypic genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae containing the single species, Toxops montanus. It was first described by V. V. Hickman in 1940,[2] and has only been found in Australia.[1] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Toxops Hickman, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ↑ Hickman, V. V. (1940). "The Toxopidae, a new family of spiders". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 1939: 125–130.
  3. ↑ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.


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