Ciba (spider)
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''Ciba'' 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
Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...
wandering spiders first described in 2014. it contains only two species. It is one of two species of eyeless spiders found in a Hispaniola cave. The non-expression of eyes and eye pigment in ''Ciba'' spiders is an energy-saving adaption in response to their dark cave habitat.


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Ctenidae genera Ctenidae Cave spiders {{Ctenidae-stub