Caribattus

Caribattus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Caribattus
Species: C. inutilis
Binomial name
Caribattus inutilis
(Peckham & Peckham, 1901)[1]

Caribattus is a monotypic genus of spiders in the Salticidae family with the single described species C. inutilis.[1] It occurs on Jamaica.

Name

The genus name is combined from Caribbean and the common ending for salticid genera -attus. The species name inutilis is Latin for "useless".

References

  1. 1 2 "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
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