Pinoquio | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Pholcidae |
Genus: | Pinoquio |
Species: | P. barauna
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Binomial name | |
Pinoquio barauna (Huber & Carvalho, 2019)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019 |
Pinoquio is a monotypic genus of South American cellar spiders containing the single species, Pinoquio barauna. It was first described with the name Pinocchio by B. A. Huber & L. S. Carvalho in 2019, after Pinocchio, whose famous nose reminded the authors of the projecting clypeus in P. barauna. [2] However, this name turned out to be a junior homonym that had been used before, for the harvestman genus Pinocchio Mello-Leitão, 1940 (now considered a synonym of Bresslauius Mello-Leitão, 1935). Therefore, the genus name was amended in 2022 to Pinoquio, which is the Portuguese spelling of the name of Collodi's famous character. [3] This genus has only been found in Brazil. [1]