''Cynorta'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
from the
subfamily Cosmetinae
''Cosmetinae'' is a subfamily of harvestmen in the family Cosmetidae.
Genera
''Cosmetinae'' currently contains 116 genera (the following list is incomplete):
* '' Flirtea''
* ''Paecilaema''
* ''Rhaucus
Rhaucus or Rhaukos ( grc, Ῥα� ...
.
The Genus was first described by
Carl Ludwig Koch.
[Cynorta Koch, 1839 in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-12-17.]
Taxonomy
The
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...
of ''Cynorta'' is ''
Cynorta conspersa
''Cynorta'' is a genus from the subfamily Cosmetinae. The Genus was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch.Cynorta Koch, 1839 in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.or ...
''.
Range
The initial description of the genus was based on occurrences in
Brazil
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,
Costa Rica,
Cuba
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,
Ecuador
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,
French Guiana
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, and
Suriname
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.
Recent occurrences suggest the same range to still be the case.
References
Cosmetidae
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