Tartarus murdochensis

Tartarus murdochensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Stiphidiidae
Genus: Tartarus
Species:
T. murdochensis
Binomial name
Tartarus murdochensis
Gray, 1922
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Holotype site (AM KS18430 ♀): Phyllistine Flattener Cave (6N194), Hampton Tableland, Nullarbor Plain, WA[1]

Tartarus murdochensis is a cave spider from Western Australia, in the family Stiphidiidae.[2][3] The spider was first described in 1992 by Mike Gray.[3]


Name

The species epithet, murdochensis, refers to its being found in the Murdoch Sink, a submerged cave system in the Nullarbor Plain of Western and Southern Australia.[3]

Conservation status

In Western Australia, the species is listed as vulnerable.[4][1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Occurrence Detail 1100101991 (Holotype of Tartarus murdochensis". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  2. ^ "Species Tartarus murdochensis Gray, 1992". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  3. ^ a b c Michael R. Gray (1992). "The troglobitic spider genus Tartarus Gray with a cladistic analysis of Tartarus and Baiami Lehtinen (Araneae: Stiphidiidae)". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 113: 168. ISSN 0370-047X. Wikidata Q123745775.
  4. ^ Atlas of Living Australia. "Species: Tartarus murdochensis (Murdoch Sink Cave Spider)". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 2023-12-11.