| Saltonia incerta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Dictynidae |
| Genus: | Saltonia Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 |
| Species: | S. incerta |
| Binomial name | |
| Saltonia incerta (Banks, 1898) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cybaeodes incerta |
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Saltonia incerta is a rare spider species, only known from California, USA, where it occurs on the shores of the Salton Sea, and from a small island in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes). All of the few collected specimens were collected during March and April near salt springs, salt water of salt marshes, making an intertidal habitat likely. Its colulus is similar to that of two genera of intertidal zone spiders of the family Desidae, Paratheuma and Desis.
Before it was placed into the family Dictynidae by Lehtinen in 1967, it was grouped under the family Agelenidae. Before that, it was at times considered to belong to the Clubionidae, thus living up to its species name incerta which is Latin for "uncertain".