Ammoxenidae
Encyclopedia
The Ammoxenidae are a small spider
family with 18 species in four genera.
, the other two (Austrammo, Barrowammo) in Australia
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Austrammo Platnick
, 2002
Barrowammo Platnick, 2002
Rastellus Platnick & Griffin, 1990
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
family with 18 species in four genera.
Distribution
Two genera (Ammoxenus, Rastellus) occur in AfricaAfrica
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, the other two (Austrammo, Barrowammo) in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Species
Ammoxenus Simon, 1893- Ammoxenus amphalodes Dippenaar & Meyer, 1980 (South Africa)
- Ammoxenus coccineus Simon, 1893 (Namibia)
- Ammoxenus daedalus Dippenaar & Meyer, 1980 (South Africa)
- Ammoxenus kalaharicus Benoit, 1972 (Botswana, South Africa)
- Ammoxenus pentheri Simon, 1896 (Botswana, South Africa)
- Ammoxenus psammodromus Simon, 1910 (Southern Africa)
Austrammo Platnick
Norman I. Platnick
Norman I. Platnick is an American arachnologist, and the Peter J. Solomon Family Curator of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D...
, 2002
- Austrammo harveyi Platnick, 2002 (Western Australia, South Australia)
- Austrammo hirsti Platnick, 2002 (South Australia, Tasmania)
- Austrammo monteithi Platnick, 2002 (Eastern Australia)
- Austrammo rossi Platnick, 2002 (Western Australia, Northern Territory)
Barrowammo Platnick, 2002
- Barrowammo waldockae Platnick, 2002 (Western Australia)
Rastellus Platnick & Griffin, 1990
- Rastellus africanus Platnick & Griffin, 1990 (Namibia, Botswana)
- Rastellus deserticola Haddad, 2003 (South Africa)
- Rastellus florisbad Platnick & Griffin, 1990 (South Africa)
- Rastellus kariba Platnick & Griffin, 1990 (Zimbabwe)
- Rastellus narubis Platnick & Griffin, 1990 (Namibia)
- Rastellus sabulosus Platnick & Griffin, 1990 (Namibia)
- Rastellus struthio Platnick & Griffin, 1990 (Namibia, Botswana)