Huttoniidae
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The Huttoniidae are a family of spiders with just one recent described species, Huttonia palpimanoides.
The species is endemic to New Zealand. Fossils of this class have been found from Cretaceous (Campanian) amber from Alberta and Manitoba, Canada, extending the known geological age of the Huttoniidae back about 80 million years, and supporting the theory of H. palpimanoides being an ousted relic species.[1] They are probably closely related to the fossil spider family Spatiatoridae.
The family was divided from the Zodariidae family in 1984, by Foster & Platnick.
Although only one species is described, there are about 20 more undescribed species, all from New Zealand.[2]
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- ^ * Penney, D. & Selden, P.A. (2006). First fossil Huttoniidae (Araneae), in Late Cretaceous Canadian Cedar and Grassy Lake ambers. Cretaceous Research 27:442–446. PDF
- ^ Forster, R.R. & Forster, L.M. (1999). Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin. University of Otago Pross, Dunedin.
