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Encyclopedia > Gallieniellidae
?Gallieniellidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Superfamily: Gnaphosoidea
Family: Gallieniellidae
Millot, 1947
Diversity
10 genera, 48 species

Genera

see text Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Phyla Subregnum Parazoa Porifera (sponges) Subregnum Agnotozoa Placozoa (trichoplax) Orthonectida (orthonectids) Rhombozoa (dicyemids) Subregnum Eumetazoa Radiata (unranked) (radial symmetry) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Bilateria (unranked) (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Orders Acarina Amblypygi Araneae Opiliones Palpigradi Pseudoscorpionida Ricinulei Schizomida Scorpiones Solifugae Uropygi The arachnids, Arachnida, are a class of invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. ... For other uses, see Spider (disambiguation). ... The Araneomorphae, previously called the Labidognatha, are a suborder of spiders. ...

The Gallieniellidae are a spider family with 48 species in ten genera. Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that produce silk, and have two tagma, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...


The species of this family are suspected to be specialized in ant-preying.

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Distribution

The family was originally thought to be endemic to Madagascar. From the 1980s on, species were also found in southern Kenya, northeastern Argentina, and Australia. The Genus Drassodella was transferred from the family Gnaphosidae in 1990. In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or introduced. ... Genera Cesonia Drassodes Gnaphosa Micaria Zelotes The ground spiders (family Gnaphosidae) include nearly 2000 species in over 100 genera worldwide. ...


Genera

  • Drassodella Hewitt, 1916 (South Africa)
  • Galianoella Goloboff, 2000 (Argentina)
  • Gallieniella Millot, 1947 (Madagascar, Comoro Island)
  • Legendrena Platnick, 1984 (Madagascar)
  • Meedo Main, 1987 (Australia)
  • Neato Platnick, 2002 (Australia)
  • Oreo Platnick, 2002 (Australia)
  • Peeto Platnick, 2002 (Australia)
  • Questo Platnick, 2002 (Australia)
  • Toxoniella Warui & Jocqué, 2002 (Kenya)

See also

Diversity 111 families Families see table The Araneae are an order of the arthropod class Arachnida with about 40,000 described species, although there are probably many species that have escaped the human eye to this day, and lots of specimen stored in collections waiting to be described and classified. ...

References

  • Platnick, N.I. (2002): A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Bulletin of the AMNH 271 PDF (26Mb) Abstract (with key to Australian species)
  • Warui, C. & Jocqué, R. (2002): The first Gallieniellidae (Araneae) from Eastern Africa. The Journal of Arachnology 30:307–315 PDF
  • Goloboff, P.A. (2000): The Family Gallieniellidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea) in the Americas. Journal of Arachnology 28(1):1-6. PDF



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