World Spider Catalog

Genus: Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Aphonopelma mordax Ausserer, 1871

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001750

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Described:

Distribution: USA

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: m (likely destroyed during World War II) - (Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016)

Taxonomic References

Eurypelma mordax Ausserer, 1871a: 211, pl. 1, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Aphonopelma mordax Smith, 1995: 124, f. 518-523 (mf, removed from S of A. hentzi)

Aphonopelma mordax Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016: 26 (nomen dubium)

References

Ausserer, A. (1871a). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117-224, pl. 1. [[incl. unpubl. manuscript by Doleschall]] -- Show included taxa

Hamilton, C. A., Hendrixson, B. E. & Bond, J. E. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States. ZooKeys 560: 1-340. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.560.6264 [[Supplementary material]] -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1995). Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico. Fitzgerald Publishing London, 196 pp. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-03-10	Taxon is nomen dubium	Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016		Aphonopelma mordax (Ausserer, 1871) declared a nomen dubium