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Genus of spiders From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]
Naatlo | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Theridiosomatidae |
Genus: | Naatlo Coddington, 1986[1] |
Type species | |
N. sutila Coddington, 1986 | |
Species | |
7, see text |
They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.[3] Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.[4]
As of June 2020[update] it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:[1]
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