Banksula californica
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Banksula californica is a species of harvestman in family Phalangodidae
. The animal is less than 2 mm in length. It is possibly extinct because the type locality, the place from where the type specimen of the species was collected, Alabaster Cave in El Dorado County, California
, has been partially destroyed due to mining and has been sealed by concrete, making surveying impossible.
Phalangodidae
The Phalangodidae are a family of harvestmen with about 20 genera and more than 100 described species, distributed in the Holarctic Region.It is not to be confused with the harvestman family Phalangiidae, which is in the suborder Eupnoi.-Name:...
. The animal is less than 2 mm in length. It is possibly extinct because the type locality, the place from where the type specimen of the species was collected, Alabaster Cave in El Dorado County, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, has been partially destroyed due to mining and has been sealed by concrete, making surveying impossible.