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Orstom is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Robert Raven in 1994.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyBarychelidae
Observations recorded18

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Barychelidae
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taxon name
Orstom
taxon rank
genus
endemic to
New Caledonia
taxonomic type
Orstom chazeaui
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Encyclopedic overview

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Orstom is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Robert Raven in 1994.

==Species== it contains six species, all found in New Caledonia: Orstom aoupinie Raven, 1994 – New Caledonia Orstom chazeaui Raven & Churchill, 1994 (type) – New Caledonia Orstom hydratemei Raven & Churchill, 1994 – New Caledonia Orstom macmillani Raven, 1994 – New Caledonia Orstom tropicus Raven, 1994 – New Caledonia Orstom undecimatus Raven, 1994 – New Caledonia

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orstom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.