Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius, Holmiae [= Stockholm] 821 Pp. (Araneae, Pp. 619-624).
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Araneidae
- genus
- Gasteracantha
- species
- Gasteracantha cancriformis
Name
- Synonyms
- Aranea cancriformis Linnaeus, 1758
- Aranea conchata Slabber, 1769
- Aranea hexacantha Fabricius, 1787
- Aranea tetracantha Linnaeus, 1767
- Dicantha lata Butler, 1873
- Epeira cancer Hentz, 1850
- Epeira lata Walckenaer, 1805
- Epeira servillei Guérin, 1825
- Gasteracantha biolleyi Banks, 1905
- Gasteracantha callida O.P.-Cambridge, 1879
- Gasteracantha cancriformis unicolor Taczanowski, 1879
- Gasteracantha canestrinii O.P.-Cambridge, 1879
- Gasteracantha columbiae Giebel, 1863
- Gasteracantha comstocki Mello-Leitão, 1917
- Gasteracantha elliptica Gétaz, 1893
- Gasteracantha hilaris Thorell, 1859
- Gasteracantha insulana Thorell, 1859
- Gasteracantha kochi Butler, 1873
- Gasteracantha mammosa C.L.Koch, 1844
- Gasteracantha mascula Strand, 1915
- Homonyms
- Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common names
- Spiny-backed orbweaver in English
- Spinybacked orbweaver in English
- orb weavers in English
- spinybacked orbweaver in English
- spinybacked orbweaver in English
- Spiny-backed Orbweaver in English
- crab spider in English
Bibliographic References
- Breene, R. G., D. Allen Dean, G. B. Edwards, Blain Hebert, Herbert W. Levi, Gail Manning, et al., 2003: null. Common Names of Arachnids, Fifth Edition. 42.
- Howarth et al. (2012), http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr58.pdf
- Ivie, Wilton,Chamberlin, Ralph V: North American Agelenidae of the genera Agelenopsis, Calilena, Ritalena and Tortolena
- Platnick, Norman I (1978) A revision of the spider genus Barrisca (Araneae, Rhoicininae)