Kwonkan

Short description: Genus of spiders

Kwonkan

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Mygalomorphae
Family:  | Anamidae
Genus:  | Kwonkan
Main, 1983[1]
Type species
K. wonganensis

Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]

* Yilgarnia[2]

Kwonkan is a genus of Australia n mygalomorph spiders first described by Barbara York Main in 1983.[3] It was originally assigned to Dipluridae, but was later assigned to Nemesiidae due to similarities to the genus Aname,[4][5] before being transferred to the family Anamidae in 2010.[1] The known distribution of described species in the genus is restricted to the states of South Australia (SA) and Western Australia (WA). Yilgarnia is now considered a synonym for this genus, and its type species is assigned to Kwonkan currycomboides.[2]

## Species

As of March 2019[update] it contains nine species:[1]

* Kwonkan anatolion Main, 1983 – SA
* Kwonkan currycomboides (Main, 1986) – WA
* Kwonkan eboracum Main, 1983 – WA
* Kwonkan goongarriensis Main, 1983 – WA
* Kwonkan linnaei (Main, 2008) – WA
* Kwonkan moriartii Main, 1983 – WA
* Kwonkan silvestris Main, 1983 – WA
* Kwonkan turrigera (Main, 1994) – SA, WA
* Kwonkan wonganensis (Main, 1977) – WA

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Gen. Kwonkan Main, 1983". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2016.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harvey, M. S. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452.
3. ↑ Main, B. Y. (1983). "Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Two new genera from south Western Australia.". Journal of Natural History 17 (6): 923–949. doi:10.1080/00222938300770731.
4. ↑ Platnick, N. I. (1989). "A revision of the spider genus Segestrioides (Araneae, Diguetidae)". American Museum Novitates (2940): 92.
5. ↑ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 182: 88.

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