''Pleorotus'' was a

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of Seychelloise huntsman spiders containing the single species, ''Pleorotus braueri''. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1898, and was endemic to the

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. The description was based on a single male collected on Mahe Island in 1894, but none have been found in later collections, and it has been declared extinct.

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