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Dolloff cave spider
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Tetragnathidae
Genus:	Meta
Species:	M. dolloff
Binomial name
Meta dolloff Levi & Levi, 1980

The Dolloff cave spider (family Tetragnathidae) is a spider native to the west coast of North America.

This species was listed on the 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. While this did not provide legal protection for the species, the list is designed to track those which may become endangered.

Habitat

The Dolloff cave spider lives in caves in the Empire Cave System and Grey Whale Ranch State Park.

References

• World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). Meta dolloff. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Vulnerable (VU D2 v2.3)

External links

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Dolloff cave spider

From Wikispecies

Taxonavigation

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea
Familia: Tetragnathidae
Subfamilia: Metainae
Genus: Meta
Species: Meta dolloff

Name

Meta dolloff Levi, 1980

Type locality: Empire Cave, Santa Cruz Co., California, USA

Holotype ♂: AMNH (26.VIII.1963; R. Graham)

References

• Levi, H. W. 1980. The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 149: 1-74. [43, f. 132-135]

Vernacular names