''Canalidion'' is a

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of tangle-web spiders containing the single species, ''Canalidion montanum''. The species was first described by James Emerton in 1882 under the name ''Theridion montanum''. J. Wunderlich moved it to its own genus in 2018, because it had more teeth on the

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margin of the cheliceral furrow, a basal depression of the cymbium, and an embolus positioned dorsally. It has a

holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical region ...

distribution.

References

Holarctic spiders Monotypic Theridiidae genera {{Theridiidae-stub

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