''Caledanapis'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
South Pacific
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araneomorph
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...
spiders in the family
Anapidae
Anapidae is a family of rather small spiders with 233 described extant species in 59 genera. It includes the former family Micropholcommatidae as the subfamily Micropholcommatinae, and the former family Holarchaeidae. Most species are less than ...
, first described by
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and Arachnology, arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History#Richard Gilder Gradua ...
&
Raymond Robert Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of The Entomological Society of New Zealand.
Biography
Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ...
in 1989.
Species
it contains six species, all found on
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
:
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Caledanapis dzumac''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – New Caledonia
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Caledanapis insolita''
(Berland, 1924) – New Caledonia
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Caledanapis peckorum''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – New Caledonia
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Caledanapis pilupilu''
(Brignoli, 1981) – New Caledonia
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Caledanapis sera''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – New Caledonia
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Caledanapis tillierorum''
Platnick & Forster, 1989 – New Caledonia
References
Anapidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Oceania
Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster
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