Nanoa is a sister genus of Pimoa, in the spider family Pimoidae, containing the single species Nanoa enana.
| Nanoa | |
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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: | Pimoidae |
| Genus: | Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005[1] |
| Species: | N. enana
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| Binomial name | |
| Nanoa enana Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005[1]
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Etymology edit
Combined from Greek nanos "dwarf" and the ending -oa, which follows the other pimoid genera Pimoa and Weintrauboa. The name enana of the only species means "dwarf" in Spanish.
Description edit
N. enana is the smallest known pimoid species, with a total body length of only 1.5 mm.
Distribution edit
N. enana occurs in northern California and southern Oregon.
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
- Gustavo Hormiga, Donald J. Buckle & Nikolaj Scharff (2005). "Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 145 (2): 249–262. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x.