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Melloina

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Melloina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Theraphosidae
Genus: Melloina
Brignoli, 1985[1]
Type species
M. gracilis
(Schenkel, 1953)
Species
Synonyms[1]

Melloina is a genus of baldlegged spiders that was first described by Paolo Marcello Brignoli in 1985.[3] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Panama and Venezuela: M. gracilis, M. rickwesti, and M. santuario.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Melloina Brignoli, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. ^ Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press. p. 112.
  3. ^ Brignoli, P. M. (1985). "On some generic homonymies in spiders (Araneae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 6 (9): 380.