Date: January
10, 2018
Source:
Pensoft Publishers
Summary:
Several literary classics from the fantasy
genre are further immortalized and linked together thanks to a Brazilian
research team who named seven new spiders after them.
Several literary classics from the fantasy
genre are further immortalised and linked together thanks to a Brazilian
research team who named seven new spiders after them.
Spider characters from A Song of Ice and
Fire, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, H. P. Lovecraft's
The Call of Cthulhu and the children's favourite Charlotte's Web and Little
Miss Spider each gave a name to a new small cave-dwelling six-eyed spider
inhabiting northern Brazil.
Discovered in iron caves across the state of
Pará, northern Brazil, the new species belong to the same Neotropical
genus Ochyrocera. They are described in a new research article published
in the open access journal ZooKeys by Dr Antonio Brescovit, Dr Igor
Cizauskas and Leandro Mota -- all affiliated with Instituto Butantan, Sao
Paulo.
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