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Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae [= Stockholm] 821 Pp. (Araneae, Pp. 619-624).

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Arachnida
order
Araneae
family
Araneidae
genus
Gasteracantha
species
Gasteracantha cancriformis

Name

Synonyms
Aranea cancriformis Linnaeus, 1758
Aranea conchata Slabber, 1769
Aranea hexacantha Fabricius, 1787
Aranea tetracantha Linnaeus, 1767
Dicantha lata Butler, 1873
Epeira cancer Hentz, 1850
Epeira lata Walckenaer, 1805
Epeira servillei Guérin, 1825
Gasteracantha biolleyi Banks, 1905
Gasteracantha callida O.P.-Cambridge, 1879
Gasteracantha cancriformis unicolor Taczanowski, 1879
Gasteracantha canestrinii O.P.-Cambridge, 1879
Gasteracantha columbiae Giebel, 1863
Gasteracantha comstocki Mello-Leitão, 1917
Gasteracantha elliptica Gétaz, 1893
Gasteracantha hilaris Thorell, 1859
Gasteracantha insulana Thorell, 1859
Gasteracantha kochi Butler, 1873
Gasteracantha mammosa C.L.Koch, 1844
Gasteracantha mascula Strand, 1915
Homonyms
Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common names
Aranha-espinhosa in Portuguese
Araña Panadera in Spanish
Araña tejedora espinosa in Spanish
Crab-like Spiny Orbweaver in English
Jewel Box Spider in English
Ragno spinoso aquilone in Italian
Spiny-backed Kite Spider in English
Spiny-backed orbweaver in English
Spiny-backed orbweaver in English
Spinybacked Spider in English
Spinybacked orbweaver in English
Vaquita in Spanish
crab spider in English
křižák račí in Czech
orb weavers in English
spinybacked orbweaver in English
spinybacked orbweaver in English
乳頭棘蛛 (乳突棘蛛、寶石棘蛛) in Chinese
Spiny-backed Orbweaver in English
crab spider in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Breene, R. G., D. Allen Dean, G. B. Edwards, Blain Hebert, Herbert W. Levi, Gail Manning, et al., 2003: null. Common Names of Arachnids, Fifth Edition. 42.
  2. Howarth et al. (2012), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr58.pdf
  3. Ivie, Wilton,Chamberlin, Ralph V: North American Agelenidae of the genera Agelenopsis, Calilena, Ritalena and Tortolena
  4. Platnick, Norman I (1978) A revision of the spider genus Barrisca (Araneae, Rhoicininae)
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