Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010] Back
Gen.
Brachionopus Pocock, 1897 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00199 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Barychelidae to the Theraphosidae by Raven, 1985a: 112; Brachyonopus is an unjustified emendation; Raven's transfer was not accepted by Charpentier, 1993: 5 or Schmidt, 2002a: 12 and 2008: 3, who nevertheless identified no close relatives of the genus among the known barychelids; Gallon, 2002: 204 argued for its inclusion in the Barychelidae but indicated that it "does not fit in any current barychelid subfamily" but later (Gallon, 2010b: 79) considered it a harpactirine.
Status:
accepted
Last updated
2020-06-05
2020-06-05
Described in
Pocock, 1897b: 740 (type Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897; gender masculine)
Pocock, 1897b: 740 (type Brachionopus robustus Pocock, 1897; gender masculine)
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Species counts
| Counts | Status |
| 4 | accepted |
| 1 | nomen dubium |
Reference
Edit history
Pocock, R. I. (1897b). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(3): 724-774, pl. 46-48. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x 
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