''Maxanapis'' is a
genus of
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
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araneomorph spiders in the family
Anapidae
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 231 described species in 58 genera. It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than long.
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, first described by
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...
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Raymond Robert Forster in 1989.
Species
it contains nine species:
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Maxanapis bartle''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
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Maxanapis bell''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
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Maxanapis bellenden''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
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Maxanapis burra''
(Forster, 1959) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Maxanapis crassifemoralis''
(Wunderlich, 1976) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Maxanapis dorrigo''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Maxanapis mossman''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
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Maxanapis tenterfield''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Maxanapis tribulation''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – Australia (Queensland)
References
Anapidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Australia
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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