''Mazax'' is a
genus
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of
corinnid sac spiders first described by
O. Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and work
Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...
in 1898.
Species
it contains seven species from the
Americas
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Along with th ...
and the
Caribbean
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
:
*''
Mazax ajax''
Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
*''
Mazax chickeringi
''Mazax'' is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.
Species
it contains seven species from the Americas and the Caribbean:
*'' Mazax ajax'' Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
*'' Mazax chickeringi'' Reiskind, ...
''
Reiskind, 1969 – Jamaica
*''
Mazax kaspari''
Cokendolpher, 1978 – USA
*''
Mazax pax''
Reiskind, 1969 (
type) – USA to Panama
*''
Mazax ramirezi
''Mazax'' is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898.
Species
it contains seven species from the Americas and the Caribbean:
*'' Mazax ajax'' Reiskind, 1969 – Mexico
*''Mazax chickeringi'' Reiskind, 1 ...
''
Rubio & Danişman, 2014 – Argentina
*''
Mazax spinosa''
(Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, 1898) – Central America, Lesser Antilles
*''
Mazax xerxes''
Reiskind, 1969 – Costa Rica
References
Araneomorphae genera
Corinnidae
Spiders of Argentina
Spiders of North America
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