Toxops Explained

Toxops is a monotypic genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae containing the single species, Toxops montanus. It was first described by V. V. Hickman in 1940,[1] and has only been found in Australia.[2] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Hickman. V. V.. 1940. The Toxopidae, a new family of spiders.. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 125–130. 1939.
  2. Gen. Toxops Hickman, 1940. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-01. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
  3. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 608. 10.1111/cla.12182. 34724759. 35535038.

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