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Mysmena

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Description

Mysmena is a genus of spiders in the family Mysmenidae, found in many parts of the world.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysmena, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2151171	https://www.gbif.org/species/2151171
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	258309	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=258309

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Araneae : Mysmenidae : Mysmena

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Chelicerata	Heymons 1901
-	Euchelicerata	Weygoldt and Paulus 1979
-	Prosomapoda	Lamsdell 2013
class	Xiphosura
order	Xiphosurida	Latreille 1802
-	Planaterga	Lamsdell 2013
-	Dekatriata	Lamsdell 2013
-	Sclerophorata	Kamenz et al. 2011
class	Arachnida	Lamarck 1801
-	Pantetrapulmonata	Shultz 2007
subclass	Tetrapulmonata	Schultz 1990
-	Serikodiastida	Garwood and Dunlop 2014
order	Araneae	Clerck 1757
suborder	Opisthothelae	Pocock 1892
infraorder	Araneomorphae	Smith 1902
-	Entelegynae	Simon 1893
superfamily	Araneoidea	Simon 1895
family	Mysmenidae	Petrunkevitch 1928
genus	Mysmena	Simon 1894

Scientific Name

Mysmena Simon, 1894

Name Published In

Simon, Eugène. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Encyclopédie Roret, Paris. Vol. 1 (3), deuxième édition Edition: 489–760.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mysmena	genus	belongs to Mysmenidae	stated with evidence	Dunlop et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Arachnida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arachnida)

Vision

limited (based on Xiphosurida)

Diet

carnivore (based on Xiphosura)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Arachnida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. A. Dunlop, D. Penney, and D. Jekel. 2013. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In N. Platnick (ed.), The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysmena

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Mysmena acuminata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena arcilonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena awari species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena baoxingensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena biangulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena bizi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena bulbifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena calypso species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena caribbaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena changouzi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena colima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena conica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena copalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Mysmena cornigera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena curvata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Mysmena dominicana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Mysmena dumoga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena fossilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Mysmena furca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena gibbosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena goudao species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena groehni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Mysmena grotae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Mysmena guianensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena haban species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena incredula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena isolata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena jinlong species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena leichhardti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena leucoplagiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena lulanga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena maculosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena marijkeae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena marplesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena mooatae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena nojimai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena nubiai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena phyllicola species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena quadrimaculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena quebecana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena rostella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena rotunda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena santacruzi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena shibali species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena spirala species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena stathamae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena taiwanica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena tamdaoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena tarautensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena tasmaniae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena tembei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena vangoethemi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena vitiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena wawuensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena woodwardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mysmena zhengi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1894	Mysmena Simon
2013	Mysmena Dunlop et al.
2017	Mysmena Wheeler et al.

References

Dunlop J. A., Penney D., et al (2013) A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Wheeler W. C., Coddington J. A., et al (2017) The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling, Cladistics 33, 574-616

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Levi, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hist. Araign., ed. 2, 1, fasc. 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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