Caayguara is a genus of Brazilian huntsman spiders that was first described by C. A. Rheims in 2010.[2]
| Caayguara | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Sparassidae |
| Genus: | Caayguara Rheims, 2010[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. album (Mello-Leitão, 1918)
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Species edit
As of September 2019[update] it contains twelve species, found in Brazil:[1]
- Caayguara ajuba Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara album (Mello-Leitão, 1918) (type) – Brazil
- Caayguara apiaba Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara atyaia Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara catuoca Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara cupepemassu Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara cupepemayri Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara itajucamussi Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara juati Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara pinda Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara poi Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
- Caayguara ybityriguara Rheims, 2010 – Brazil
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Caayguara Rheims, 2010". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Rheims, C. A. (2010). "Caayguara, a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Brazilian Atlantic forest (Araneae: Sparassidae)". Zootaxa. 2630: 1–29. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2630.1.1.