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Calacadia

Calacadia is a genus of South American intertidal spiders first described by H. Exline in 1960.

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Calacadia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Calacadia
Exline, 19601
Type species
C. chilensis
Exline, 1960
Species

7, see text

Calacadia is a genus of South American intertidal spiders first described by H. Exline in 1960.2

Species

As of April 2019 it contains seven species, all found in Chile:1

  • Calacadia ambigua (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile
  • Calacadia chilensis Exline, 1960 – Chile
  • Calacadia dentifera (Tullgren, 1902) – Chile
  • Calacadia livens (Simon, 1902) – Chile
  • Calacadia osorno Exline, 1960 – Chile
  • Calacadia radulifera (Simon, 1902) – Chile
  • Calacadia rossi Exline, 1960 – Chile
References

References

  1. "Gen. Calacadia Exline, 1960". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. Exline, H. (1960). "Rhoicinine spiders (Pisauridae) of western South America". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 29: 577–620.