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Genus Megahexura

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Mygalomorphae (Mygalomorphs)
Family Megahexuridae
Genus Megahexura
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Transferred from Mecicobothriidae to Megahexuridae by Hedin et al., 2019.(1)(2)
Explanation of Names
Kaston, 1972
Numbers
monotypic genus
Identification
abdominal tergites
Range
California endemic. San Diego northwards to San Francisco Bay area in Coast Ranges, near Lake Tahoe in western Sierra Nevada, absent in Central Valley
Print References
Gertsch, W. J. & Platnick, N. I. (1979). A revision of the spider family Mecicobothriidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum Novitates 2687: 1-32. (online PDF)
Internet References
World Spider Catalog (2019). World Spider Catalog. Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, accessed on May 20, 2019.
Works Cited
1.World Spider Catalog
2.Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid
Hedin, M., Derkarabetian, S., Alfaro, A., Ramírez, M. J. & Bond, J. E. . 2019. PeerJ 7(e6864): 1-24.