| Pinkfloydia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Pinkfloydia Hormiga & Dimitrov, 2011[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. harveyi Dimitrov & Hormiga, 2011
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Pinkfloydia is a genus of small Australian long-jawed orb-weavers, reaching a maximum lengths of about 4.5 millimetres (0.18 in). It was first described by D. Dimitrov & G. Hormiga in 2011,[2] and contains two species, found in New South Wales and Western Australia: P. harveyi and P. rixi.[1] They have a unique rounded, cone-shaped head structure with one pair of large eyes and three pairs of smaller eyes. The genus is named after British rock band Pink Floyd.
- ^ a b "Gen. Pinkfloydia Hormiga & Dimitrov, 2011". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ Dimitrov, D.; Hormiga, G. (2011). "An extraordinary new genus of spiders from Western Australia with an expanded hypothesis on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae (Araneae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (4): 735–768. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00662.x. S2CID 83636784.