Eucanippe is a genus of Western Australian armored trapdoor spiders first described by Michael Gordon Rix, Robert J. Raven, Barbara York Main, S. E. Harrison, A. D. Austin, S. J. B. Cooper & Mark Stephen Harvey in 2017.[2]

Eucanippe
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Eucanippe
Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017[1]
Type species
E. bifida Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017
Species

7, see text

Species

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As of April 2019 the genus contained seven species, all from Western Australia:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Eucanippe Rix, Main, Raven & Harvey, 2017". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  2. ^ Rix, M. G.; Raven, R. J.; Main, B. Y.; Harrison, S. E.; Austin, A. D.; Cooper, S. J. B.; Harvey, M. S. (2017). "The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (5): 566–634. doi:10.1071/IS16065. S2CID 90787136.