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The ADW Team gratefully acknowledges their support. comp. with the Harvard 61: 25-75 [p. 70, pl. Please see our brief essay. This material is based upon work supported by the Almost blind, it has sensitive hairs that enable it to sense the vibration caused by movement to determine the size and location of a potential victim. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. Cyrtopholis portoricae live in burrows that they dig by themselves, occasionally using holes abandoned by rodent or other small burrowing animals.

[2], As of March2020[update] it contains twenty-four species, found in the Caribbean and South America:[1]. While ADW staff and contributors provide references to books and websites that we believe are reputable, we cannot necessarily endorse the contents of references beyond our control. Its prey consists of insects and occasionally small animals such as frogs. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. A global community of nature enthusiasts photographing and learning about wildlife. Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. The databases, listed as External Resources,

The Common Puerto Rican Brown Tarantula is a nocturnal predator, killing its prey by injecting venom with its long, black fangs. All responsibility for such data is with the external database. * Disclaimer This Theraphosidae-related article is a stub. New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. Mus. The Common Puerto Rican Brown Tarantula female may live up to 5 years, while the male typically survives only 1 to 1.5 years. -- Show included taxa. It typically waits patiently at the entrance to its burrow to ambush prey. http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_0002342, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006611, http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository, http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:33791, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104, https://eol.org/schema/terms/corneal_eyes, https://www.britannica.com/science/photoreception/Single-chambered-eyes#ref278820. Though we edit our accounts for accuracy, we cannot guarantee all information in those accounts. 2020 Regents of the University of Michigan. -- Show included taxa, Chamberlin, R. V. (1917). After a short gestation period, impregnated females will deposit 50 to 100 eggs in a silken egg-sac and guard it for up to 7 weeks. Bertani, R. (2001). World Spider Catalog. Copyright 2020 Tarantupedia, Photos by Taki Tsonis unless otherwise specified, Catumiri Guadanucci, 2004: new diagnosis, first description of the female of C. petropolium Guadanucci, 2004, and new records of the genus from Brazil and Uruguay (Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae), A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Colombia and a transfer from Proshapalopus Mello-Leito, 1923 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), Two new species of Eupalaestrus Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Southern Brazil and Northeastern Argentina, Twenty-three new spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Asia. Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]. The Animal Diversity Web team is excited to announce ADW Pocket Guides! Cyrtopholis is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Eugne Louis Simon in 1892.

an order within an order? Burrow entrances are lined with silk for concealment. 2021, Project Contributors GBIF.org (2019). Spotted on Jul 28, 2013 Submitted on Jul 28, 2013. After consuming its prey Cyrtopholis portoricae cleans itself by rubbing its legs together and over its body to remove scraps and debris, finishing its clean-up by licking its legs and the tips of its pedipalps (short, leg-like appendages near the mouth parts.) Grants DRL 0089283, DRL 0628151, DUE 0633095, DRL 0918590, and DUE 1122742. Arquivos de Zoologia 36: 265-356. Additional support has come from the Marisla Foundation, UM College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Museum of Zoology, and Information and Technology Services. Confused by a class within a class or To cite this page: Accessed at https://animaldiversity.org. 5, f. 4-7], Danniella Sherwood, Ray Gabriel, Antonio Domingos Brescovit, Sylvia Marlene Lucas, Leandro Malta Borges, Andressa Paladini, Rogrio Bertani, Arthur Galleti-Lima, Rafael Prezzi Indicatti, Jos Paulo Leite Guadanucci, They may contain further information for the given species. Bull. National Science Foundation 2022. (1929b). Revision, cladistic analysis, and zoogeography of Vitalius, Nhandu, and Proshapalopus; with notes on other theraphosine genera (Araneae, Theraphosidae). The Animal Diversity Web (online). Disclaimer: Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 61: 25-75. EOL has data for 4 attributes, including: Harvard UNiversity, Museum of Comparative Zoology.

2021, Leandro Malta Borges, Andressa Paladini, Rogrio Bertani, Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Puerto Rican Brown Tarantula. Cyrtopholis portoricae (Puerto Rican Brown Tarantula) is a species of spiders in the family tarantulas. 2021, Yejie Lin, Yuri M. Marusik, Caixia Gao, Hao Xu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Ziyi Wang, Wenhui Zhu, Shuqiang Li, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement

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