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Naatlo

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Naatlo
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Naatlo
Coddington, 1986[1]
Type species
N. sutila
Coddington, 1986
Species

7, see text

Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]

Behaviour

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They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.[3] Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.[4]

Species

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As of June 2020 it contains seven species, found in South America, Panama, Costa Rica, on Tobago, and Trinidad:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2020). "Gen. Naatlo Coddington, 1986". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
  2. ^ Coddington, J. A. (1986). "The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 422 (422): 1–96. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.422.
  3. ^ Yeager, Ashley (Nov 1, 2022). "Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do". The Scientist. Retrieved Dec 30, 2022.
  4. ^ Alexander, Symone; Bhamla, Saad (2020). "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs". Current Biology. 30 (16): 928–929. Bibcode:2020CBio...30.R928A. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.076. PMID 32810449.

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