Eumenophorus is a genus of Sierra Leonean tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[3] As of March 2020[update] it contains two species, found in Sierra Leone: E. clementsi and E. murphyorum.[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Monocentropella.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Eumenophorus Pocock, 1897[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. clementsi Pocock, 1897
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Eumenophorus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ a b Gallon, R. C. (2010). "On some southern African Harpactirinae, with notes on the eumenophorines Pelinobius muticus Karsch, 1885 and Monocentropella Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Theraphosidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 15 (2): 43.
- ^ Pocock, R. I. (1897). "On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 65 (3): 724–774. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.
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