Stromatopelma
Stromatopelma | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Theraphosidae |
Genus: | Stromatopelma Karsch, 1881[1] |
Type species | |
S. calceatum (Fabricius, 1793) | |
Species | |
5, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Stromatopelma is a genus of African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1881.[2] They are renowned for their potent venom that uses stromatoxin peptides to induce medically significant effects.[3]
Species
[edit]As of May 2020[update] it contains five species and one subspecies, found in Africa:[1]
- Stromatopelma batesi (Pocock, 1902) – Cameroon, Congo
- Stromatopelma calceatum (Fabricius, 1793) (type) – West Africa
- Stromatopelma c. griseipes (Pocock, 1897) – West Africa
- Stromatopelma fumigatum (Pocock, 1900) – Equatorial Guinea (Mbini)
- Stromatopelma pachypoda (Strand, 1908) – Cameroon
- Stromatopelma satanas (Berland, 1917) – Gabon, Congo
In synonymy:
- Stromatopelma alicapillatum Karsch, 1881 = Stromatopelma calceatum
- Stromatopelma aussereri (Becker, 1879) = Stromatopelma calceatum
- Stromatopelma brachypoda (Pocock, 1897) = Stromatopelma calceatum
- Stromatopelma horrida (Thorell, 1899) = Stromatopelma calceatum
- Stromatopelma straeleni (Roewer, 1953) = Stromatopelma batesi
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Stromatopelma Karsch, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
- ^ Karsch, F. (1881). "Eine neue Vogelspinne aus Südafrika". Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 25 (2): 217–218. doi:10.1002/mmnd.18810250208.
- ^ Escoubas, Pierre; Diochot, Sylvie; Célérier, Marie-Louise; Nakajima, Terumi & Lazdunski, Michel (2002). "Novel tarantula toxins for subtypes of voltage-dependent potassium channels in the Kv2 and Kv4 subfamilies". Molecular Pharmacology. 62 (1): 48–57. doi:10.1124/mol.62.1.48. PMID 12065754.
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