Taxon details

Family: Theraphosidae / Genus: Aphonopelma

Aphonopelma mordax (Ausserer, 1871)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-05-23
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001750]
  • Distribution: USA
Type deposit provide information
Taxonomic references
Eurypelma mordax Ausserer, 1871a: 211, pl. 1, f. 1-3 (Dm).
Aphonopelma mordax Smith, 1995: 124, f. 518-523 (mf, removed from S of A. hentzi).
Aphonopelma mordax Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016: 26 (nomen dubium).
References

Ausserer, A. (1871a). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 21: 117-224, pl. 1. [incl. unpubl. manuscript by Doleschall] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hamilton, C. A., Hendrixson, B. E. & Bond, J. E. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States. ZooKeys 560: 1-340. [Supplementary material] doi:10.3897/zookeys.560.6264 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1995). Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico. Fitzgerald Publishing, London, 196 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2016-03-10 Taxon is nomen dubium Hamilton, Hendrixson & Bond, 2016 Aphonopelma mordax (Ausserer, 1871) declared a nomen dubium