Trichodamon

Trichodamon
Trichodamon princeps
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Amblypygi
Family: Phrynichidae
Genus: Trichodamon
Mello-Leitão, 1935
Species:
T. princeps
Binomial name
Trichodamon princeps
Mello-Leitão, 1935

Trichodamon is a genus of whipspider from Brazil, containing a single species, Trichodamon princeps.

Taxonomy

Before 2018, Trichodamon contained two species, T. princeps and T. froesi, described by Mello-Leitão in 1935 and 1940 respectively, with a third species T. pusillus previously synonymized to T. princeps. However, a paper published in 2018 concluded that the characters that were previously used to distinguish the two species were unreliable, and that Trichodamon is in fact monotypic.

Distribution and habitat

Trichodamon is the only known phrynichid amblypygid found within the Americas. It is distributed within Brazil.

References

  1. ↑ "Trichodamon Mello-Leitão, 1935". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 18 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "WAC - Amblypygi". wac.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2026-04-13.
  3. 1 2 3 de Miranda, Gustavo; Kury, Adriano; Giupponi, Alessandro (2018). "Review of Trichodamon Mello-Leitão 1935 and phylogenetic placement of the genus in Phrynichidae (Arachnida, Amblypygi)". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 273: 33–55. Bibcode:2018ZooAn.273...33D. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2018.02.006 – via Elsevier Science Direct.