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Acanthogonatus

Acanthogonatus is a genus of South American mygalomorph spiders in the family Pycnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880. Originally placed with the brushed trapdoor spiders, it was transferred to the funnel-web trapdoor spiders in 1985, then to the Pycnothelidae in 2020.

Species

it contains thirty species, found in Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile:

Formerly included:

  • A. argentina <small>(Simon, 1897)</small> (Transferred to Stenoterommata)

Nomen dubium

  • A. gounellei <small>(Simon, 1886</small>

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