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Bond, J. E. & Platnick, N. I. (2007). A taxonomic review of the trapdoor spider genus Myrmekiaphila (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae). American Museum Novitates 3596: 1-30. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3596[1:ATROTT]2.0.CO;2
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Platnick, N. I. & Goloboff, P. A. (1985). On the monophyly of the spider suborder Mesothelae (Arachnida: Araneae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93(4): 1265-1270.
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Ott, R., Platnick, N. I., Berniker, L. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2013). Basibulbus, a hard-bodied, haplogyne spider genus from Chile (Araneae, Dysderoidea). American Museum Novitates 3775: 1-20. doi:10.1206/3775.2
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Forster, R. R., Platnick, N. I. & Coddington, J. (1990). A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 193: 1-116.
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Ovtsharenko, V. I., Levy, G. & Platnick, N. I. (1994). A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3095: 1-27.
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Haddad, C. R., Jin, C., Platnick, N. I. & Booysen, R. (2021). Capobula gen. nov., a new Afrotropical dark sac spider genus related to Orthobula Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4942(1): 41-71. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4942.1.2
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Platnick, N. I., Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2022). The guardstone spiders of the genus Phonotimpus Gertsch & Davis (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from northeastern Mexico. Zootaxa 5219(1): 1-48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5219.1.1
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Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Platnick, N. I. & Dupérré, N. (2009). A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from Iran. American Museum Novitates 3656: 1-12. doi:10.1206/675.1
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Platnick, N. I., Berniker, L. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2013b). The South American goblin spiders of the new genera Pseudodysderina and Tinadysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3787: 1-43. doi:10.1206/3787.1
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Platnick, N. I., Grismado, C. J. & Ramírez, M. J. (1999). On the genera of the spider subfamily Otiothopinae (Araneae, Palpimanidae). American Museum Novitates 3257: 1-25.
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Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Ott, R. & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2011). The goblin spider genus Brignolia (Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 349: 1-131. doi:10.1206/743.1
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Platnick, N. I., Shadab, M. U. & Sorkin, L. N. (2005). On the Chilean spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea), with a revision of the genus Moreno Mello-Leitão. American Museum Novitates 3499: 1-31. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)499[0001:OTCSOT]2.0.CO;2
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Grismado, C. J., Lopardo, L. & Platnick, N. I. (2003). A new species of Austrochilus from Chile (Araneae, Austrochilidae, Austrochilinae). Journal of Arachnology 31: 148-150.
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Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Ubick, D. & Fannes, W. (2012c). Got males? The enigmatic goblin spider genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3756: 1-36. doi:10.1206/3756.2
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Platnick, N. I., Berniker, L. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2013a). The South American goblin spider genera Dysderina and Tridysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3772: 1-52. doi:10.1206/3772.2
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Ovtsharenko, V. I., Platnick, N. I. & Marusik, Y. M. (1995). A review of the Holarctic ground spider genus Parasyrisca (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates 3147: 1-55.
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Platnick, N. I., Ovtsharenko, V. I. & Murphy, J. A. (2001). A review of the ground spider genus Scotognapha (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), and its radiation on the Canary and Salvage Islands. American Museum Novitates 3338: 1-22. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)338<0001:AROTGS>2.0.CO;2
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Platnick, N. I., Berniker, L. & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2012). The goblin spider genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World. American Museum Novitates 3759: 1-32. doi:10.1206/3759.2
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Haddad, C. R., Jin, C. & Platnick, N. I. (2022). A revision of the spider genus Orthobula Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the Afrotropical Region. I. Continental species. Zootaxa 5133(3): 355-382. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5133.3.3
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Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Platnick, N. I. & Dupérré, N. (2010). A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 3705: 1-44. doi:10.1206/3705.2
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Forster, R. R., Platnick, N. I. & Gray, M. R. (1987). A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185: 1-116.
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Ovtsharenko, V. I., Platnick, N. I. & Song, D. X. (1992). A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 212: 1-88.
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Eberhard, W. G., Platnick, N. I. & Schuh, R. T. (1993). Natural history and systematics of arthropod symbionts (Araneae; Hemiptera; Diptera) inhabiting webs of the spider Tengella radiata (Araneae, Tengellidae). American Museum Novitates 3065: 1-17.
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Platnick, N. I., Schwendinger, P. J. & Steiner, H. (1997). Three new species of the spider genus Liphistius (Araneae, Mesothelae) from Malaysia. American Museum Novitates 3209: 1-13.
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Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Berniker, L. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2013). The goblin spider genera Prodysderina, Aschnaoonops, and Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 373: 1-102. doi:10.1206/822.1
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Jiménez, M. L., Platnick, N. I. & Dupérré, N. (2011). The haplogyne spider genus Nopsides (Araneae, Caponiidae), with notes on Amrishoonops. American Museum Novitates 3708: 1-18. doi:10.1206/3708.2
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Platnick, N. I., Coddington, J. A., Forster, R. R. & Griswold, C. E. (1991). Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae). American Museum Novitates 3016: 1-73.
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Griswold, C. E., Coddington, J. A., Platnick, N. I. & Forster, R. R. (1999). Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae). Journal of Arachnology 27: 53-63.
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Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Ott, R., Baehr, B. C. & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2012b). The goblin spider genus Pelicinus (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 1. American Museum Novitates 3741: 1-43. doi:10.1206/3741.2
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Griswold, C. E., Ramírez, M. J., Coddington, J. A. & Platnick, N. I. (2005). Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(Suppl. II): 1-324.
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Ramírez, M. J., Grismado, C. J., Ubick, D., Ovtcharenko, V. I., Cushing, P. E., Platnick, N. I., Wheeler, W. C., Prendini, L., Crowley, L. M. & Horner, N. V. (2019). Myrmecicultoridae, a new family of myrmecophilic spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae, Entelegynae). American Museum Novitates 3930: 1-24. doi:10.1206/3930.1
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Platnick, N. I., Abrahim, N., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Andriamalala, D., Baehr, B. C., Baert, L., Bonaldo, A. B., Brescovit, A. D., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Dupérré, N., Eichenberger, B., Fannes, W., Gaublomme, E., Gillespie, R., Grismado, C. J., Griswold, C. E., Harvey, M. S., Henrard, A., Hormiga, G., Izquierdo, M. A., Jocqué, R., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Kropf, C., Ott, R., Ramírez, M. J., Raven, R. J., Rheims, C. A., Ruiz, G. R. S., Santos, A. J., Saucedo, A., Sierwald, P., Szűts, T., Ubick, D. & Wang, X.-P. (2012a). Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera. American Museum Novitates 3736: 1-52. doi:10.1206/3736.2
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Wheeler, W. C., Coddington, J. A., Crowley, L. M., Dimitrov, D., Goloboff, P. A., Griswold, C. E., Hormiga, G., Prendini, L., Ramírez, M. J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L. M., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Arnedo, M. A., Benavides, L. R., Benjamin, S. P., Bond, J. E., Grismado, C. J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M. A., Labarque, F. M., Ledford, J., Lopardo, L., Maddison, W. P., Miller, J. A., Piacentini, L. N., Platnick, N. I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C., Wood, H. M. & Zhang, J. X. (2017). The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33(6): 576-616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182
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