Caribattus
Encyclopedia
Caribattus is a spider
genus
of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) with the single described species C. inutilis. It occurs on Jamaica
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and the common ending for salticid genera -attus. The species name inutilis is Latin for "useless".
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) with the single described species C. inutilis. It occurs on Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
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Name
The genus name is combined from CaribbeanCaribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
and the common ending for salticid genera -attus. The species name inutilis is Latin for "useless".