Eucanippe

Eucanippe
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Idiopidae
Genus:	Eucanippe Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017[1]
Type species
E. bifida Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017
Species
7, see text

Eucanippe is a genus of Western Australian armored trapdoor spiders first described by Michael Gordon Rix, Robert J. Raven, Barbara York Main, S. E. Harrison, A. D. Austin, S. J. B. Cooper & Mark Stephen Harvey in 2017.[2]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] the genus contained seven species, all from Western Australia:[1]

• Eucanippe absita Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
• Eucanippe agastachys Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
• Eucanippe bifida Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017
• Eucanippe eucla Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
• Eucanippe mallee Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
• Eucanippe mouldsi Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018
• Eucanippe nemestrina Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2018

References

1. "Gen. Eucanippe Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
2. Rix, M. G.; Raven, R. J.; Main, B. Y.; Harrison, S. E.; Austin, A. D.; Cooper, S. J. B.; Harvey, M. S. (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (5): 566–634. doi:10.1071/IS16065. S2CID 90787136.