Species Saltonia incerta

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Habitat · See Also · Works Cited

Saltonia incerta (captive) - Saltonia incerta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Dictynidae (Mesh Web Weavers)

Genus Saltonia

Species incerta (Saltonia incerta)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Size

Adult body length (excluding legs) ranges from 3.3-4.5 millimeters.(1)

Range

Extreme southern California, northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, and southwestern New Mexico.(1)(2)(3)(4)

Habitat

A salt-loving species only found on salt flats, near salt springs, salt water, or salt marshes.(5) It was once thought to be extinct, especially with its type locality now under water, and only 3 specimens ever found in over 70 years of collection. However, additional specimens have been found more recently from alkaline lake beds in the Mojave Desert where it may actually be locally abundant.(2)

See Also

General appearance similar to Cicurina.

Works Cited

1.	Nearctic genera of the spider family Agelenidae (Arachnida, Araneida) Vincent Roth & Patricia Brame. 1972. American Museum Novitates 2505: 1-52.

2.	Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.

3.	Spider Genera of North America with Keys to Families and Genera and a Guide to Literature (3rd edition) Vincent D. Roth. 1993. American Arachnological Society.

4.	Desert salt flats as oases for the spider Saltonia incerta Banks (Araneae: Dictynidae) Sarah Crews & Rosemary Gillespie. 2014. Ecology and Evolution 4(19): 3861-3874.

5.	Comments on the spider Saltonia incerta Banks (Agelenidae?) Vincent Roth & Wynne Brown. 1975. Journal of Arachnology 3: 53-56.

Contributed by R.J. Adams on 22 July, 2010 - 8:34pm
Additional contributions by Mandy Howe
Last updated 15 February, 2016 - 5:00pm

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