| Trichodamon | |
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| Trichodamon princeps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Amblypygi |
| Family: | Phrynichidae |
| Genus: | Trichodamon Mello-Leitão, 19351 |
| Species: | T. princeps
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| Binomial name | |
| Trichodamon princeps Mello-Leitão, 1935
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Trichodamon is a genus of whipspider from Brazil, containing a single species, Trichodamon princeps.23
Taxonomy
Before 2018, Trichodamon contained two species, T. princeps and T. froesi, described by Mello-Leitão in 1935 and 1940 respectively, with a third species T. pusillus previously synonymized to T. princeps. However, a paper published in 2018 concluded that the characters that were previously used to distinguish the two species were unreliable, and that Trichodamon is in fact monotypic.3
Distribution and habitat
Trichodamon is the only known phrynichid amblypygid found within the Americas. It is distributed within Brazil.3
References
References
- "Trichodamon Mello-Leitão, 1935". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
- "WAC - Amblypygi". wac.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
- de Miranda, Gustavo; Kury, Adriano; Giupponi, Alessandro (2018). "Review of Trichodamon Mello-Leitão 1935 and phylogenetic placement of the genus in Phrynichidae (Arachnida, Amblypygi)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 273: 33–55. Bibcode:2018ZooAn.273...33D. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2018.02.006 – via Elsevier Science Direct.