Kingdom Animalia Class Arachnida Phylum Arthropoda Order Spider | Subphylum Chelicerata Infraorder Araneomorphae Rank Family | |
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Similar Cycloctenidae, Stenochilidae, Senoculidae, Cithaeronidae, Austrochilidae | ||
The Synotaxidae are a spider family with 68 described species in 13 genera. It has been proposed that the family be limited to the Synotaxinae, with the Pahorinae and Physogeleninae placed in a separate family, Physogelenidae, although as of October 2016 this has not been accepted by other sources.
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Distribution
Species of this family occur in Central and South America, New Zealand and Australia.
Genera
The categorization into subfamilies follows Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog.
References
Synotaxidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA