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Progradungula
Sign in to saveProgradungula is a genus of Australian large-clawed spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster and Michael R. Gray in 1979.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyGradungulidae
Progradungula es un género de arañas araneomorfas de la familia Gradungulidae. Se encuentra en Australia.
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gradungulidae
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- Progradungula otwayensis immature male with catching ladder.jpg
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- taxon name
- Progradungula
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- genus
- endemic to
- Australia
- Commons category
- Progradungula
- taxon author citation
- Forster & Gray, 1980
- taxonomic type
- Progradungula carraiensis
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Progradungula is a genus of Australian large-clawed spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster and Michael R. Gray in 1979.
The name is derived from Latin pro ("before"), and the genus name Gradungula, referring to the ancient ancestry of the genus. It is the first discovered web-building cribellate spider in a "primitive" araneomorph spider family and helped establish the idea that all araneomorph spiders evolved from cribellate ancestors.
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