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- Title
Phylogeny and classification of Phoicidae (Araneae): an update.
- Authors
Huber, Bernhard A.
- Abstract
For over 100 years, Eugene Simon's system of pholcid classification has been used with only minor modifications. Phylogenetic research over the last decade has shown that some fundamental changes are necessary if the formal system is to reflect putative evolutionary relationships. Based on cladistic analyses of morphological and molecular data and on qualitative character assessment, the family is here divided into five subfamilies: Ninetinae, Arteminae, Modisiminae, Smeringopinae, and Pholcinae. All currently valid genera are placed in a cladogram. Even though the evidence supporting some of the nodes and assignments is weak, the cladogram generates numerous testable hypotheses and provides an improved framework for the mapping of 'new' characters like those from sperm uhrastructure and chromosome analysis.
- Subjects
PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL classification; PHOLCIDAE; BIOLOGICAL evolution; ANIMAL morphology; CLADISTIC analysis
- Publication
Journal of Arachnology, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0161-8202
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1636/CA10-57.1