Ctenolophus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Idiopidae |
| Genus: | Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 |
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| C. kolbei (Purcell, 1902) | |
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Ctenolophus is a genus of African armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by William Frederick Purcell in 1904. Originally placed with the Ctenizidae, it was moved to the Idiopidae in 1985.
Species
As of June 2022 it contains 6 species, all found in South Africa:
- Ctenolophus cregoei (Purcell, 1902) – South Africa
- Ctenolophus fenoulheti Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Ctenolophus kolbei (Purcell, 1902) (type) – South Africa
- Ctenolophus oomi Hewitt, 1913 – South Africa
- Ctenolophus pectinipalpis (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
- Ctenolophus spiricola (Purcell, 1903) – South Africa
See also
References
Wikispecies has information related to Ctenolophus.
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
- ^ Purcell, W. F. (1904). "Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders" (PDF). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 15: 115–173. doi:10.1080/21560382.1904.9626437.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 138.
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