Allococalodes cornutus
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Allococalodes cornutus is a jumping spider
species in the gensus Allococalodes
endemic
to New Guinea
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Jumping spider
The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...
species in the gensus Allococalodes
Allococalodes
Allococalodes is a genus of the spider family Salticidae . All described species are endemic to New Guinea.-Name:The genus name is a combination of Ancient Greek allo "other" and the salticid genus Cocalodes.-Species:...
endemic
Endemic (ecology)
Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, all species of lemur are endemic to the...
to New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
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