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Species Bucranium affinis

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Thomisidae (Crab Spiders)
Genus Bucranium
Species affinis (Bucranium affinis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bucranium affinis (O. P.-Cambridge)
Orig. Comb: Majella affinis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
Explanation of Names
affinis - Latin for 'allied, related' (1)
Numbers
4 spp. described, 1 undetermined sp. n. of Mex.
Size
3 mm (BG Data)
Range
ne. Mex., and possibly s. TX
Remarks
Type Locality: Atoyac, Veracruz, Mexico
Print References
Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. 1900. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192. (191-192, pl. 24, f. 3)
Pickard-Cambridge, O. 1896. Arachnida. Araneida. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 1, 161-224. (pg. 165, pl. 11, f. 6)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.