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Toxops

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Toxops is a monotypic genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae containing the single species, Toxops montanus. It was first described by V. V. Hickman in 1940,^[2] and has only been found in Australia.^[1] Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Toxops Hickman, 1940". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
^ Hickman, V. V. (1940). "The Toxopidae, a new family of spiders". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 1939: 125–130.
^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 608. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.

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Toxops is a monotypic genus of Australian araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae containing the single species, Toxops montanus. It was first described by V. V. Hickman in 1940, and has only been found in Australia. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017.