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Garcorops

Description

Garcorops is a genus of east African wall spiders that was first described by J. A. Corronca in 2003. As of September 2019 it contains three species, found on Madagascar and Comoros: G. jocquei, G. madagascar, and G. paulyi. In addition, one species, †Garcorops jadis Bosselaers, 2004 , is only known from a fossil found in copal on Madagascar:


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)2155391https://www.gbif.org/species/2155391
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)268887https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=268887
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Araneae : Selenopidae : Garcorops
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
-EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
-ProsomapodaLamsdell 2013
classXiphosura
orderXiphosuridaLatreille 1802
-PlanatergaLamsdell 2013
-DekatriataLamsdell 2013
-SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
-PantetrapulmonataShultz 2007
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
-SerikodiastidaGarwood and Dunlop 2014
orderAraneaeClerck 1757
suborderOpisthothelaePocock 1892
infraorderAraneomorphaeSmith 1902
-EntelegynaeSimon 1893
-DionychaPetrunkevitch 1928
familySelenopidaeSimon 1897
genusGarcoropsCorronca 2003
Scientific NameGarcorops Corronca, 2003
Name Published InAfr Zool 38 (2), October
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Garcoropsgenusbelongs to Selenopidaestated with evidenceDunlop et al., 2013
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
Extant Size (PBDB)1 (50%)
First Recorded Appearance0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Arachnida)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arachnida)
Visionlimited (based on Xiphosurida)
Dietcarnivore (based on Xiphosura)
Taphonomychitin (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
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcorops

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Garcorops jadis
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
20.01 Ma
Pleistocene
0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
Garcorops jocquei
species
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Garcorops madagascar
species
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Garcorops paulyi
species
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
2003Garcorops Corronca
2013Garcorops Dunlop et al. p. 177
2017Garcorops 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
Corronca, J.A. (2003). New genus and species of Selenopidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Madagascar and neighbouring islands. African Zoology, 38 (2), 387-392 - 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 unverified/Stang, 2004-present - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per included species - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Afr Zool 38 (2), October - 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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