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1 December 2000 ADANSONIA IS A BAOBAB TREE, NOT A THERIDIID SPIDER
Ingi Agnarsson
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Abstract

The name Adansonia Saville-Kent was erroneously introduced into spider taxonomy by Bonnet in 1939 and still appears in the literature. Saville-Kent was referring to a tree, not describing a spider.

Ingi Agnarsson "ADANSONIA IS A BAOBAB TREE, NOT A THERIDIID SPIDER," The Journal of Arachnology 28(3), 351-352, (1 December 2000). https://doi.org/10.1636/0161-8202(2000)028[0351:AIABTN]2.0.CO;2
Received: 23 October 1999; Published: 1 December 2000
KEYWORDS
Adansonia
Araneae
nomenclature
systematics
Theridiidae
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