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The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of web pages in 2000, created by Norman I. Platnick of the American Museum of Natural History.
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, [2] and spinnerets that extrude silk ...
Listings of spiders, such as the World Spider Catalog, currently ignore classification above the family level. [21] [22] At the higher level, the phylogeny of spiders is now often discussed using informal clade names, such as the "RTA clade", [23] the "Oval Calmistrum" clade or the "Divided Cribellum" clade. [24]
The genera of the family Salticidae listed here are those that are extant and accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020. [1] Assignment to subfamilies and clades is based on Maddison (2015), [2] except where otherwise shown. Unless sources indicate otherwise, genera that were split after 2015 are given the same placements as the ...
This page lists all described genera and species of the spider family Sparassidae. As of January 2020 [update] , the World Spider Catalog accepts 1383 species in 96 genera: [ 1 ] † Sparassidae sp. Wunderlich, 2008c — Palaeogen Baltic amber
This page lists all described genera and species of the spider family Theraphosidae. As of August 2022 [update] , the World Spider Catalog accepted 1041 species in 156 genera: [ 1 ] A
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This page lists all described species of the spider family Atracidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of December 2020: [1] Atrax. Atrax O ...