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Naatlo

Dupérré, Nadine;Tapia, Elicio

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Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyTheridiosomatidae

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Naatlo
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Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.

==Behaviour== They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey. Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.

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