| Toxeus magnus | |
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| Male | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Toxeus |
| Species: | T. magnus
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| Binomial name | |
| Toxeus magnus (Saito, 1933)
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| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Toxeus magnus is a species of jumping spider of the genus Toxeus.[1] It is endemic to Taiwan[1] and Southeast Asia.[2] The species was originally classified as a part of the genus Myrmarachne in 1933 by Saitō in his work Notes on the spiders from Formosa, but it was later reclassified as Toxeus by the Polish arachnologist Jerzy Prószyński in November 2016. The species is notable for being a non-mammalian animal that nurses its offspring through a form of lactation.[3]
Toxeus magnus is exceptional because of its social behaviour.[4] Of the nearly 48,000 known different species of spiders only around 120 are known to be able to tolerate the company of others (including their own siblings) for more than three weeks, and only around 30 species of spiders are known to engage in life-long social lives.[4]
- ^ a b c "Toxeus magnus (Saito, 1933)". The World Spider Catalog (WSC). 9 November 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Toxeus magnus (Saito, 1933) - source: Catalogue of Life - Basionym: Myrmarachne magna Saito, 1933". Catalogue of Life. 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ Jason G. Goldman (29 November 2018). "Not just mammals: Some spiders nurse their young with milk - Although lactation and nursing is more commonly associated with mammals, some other animals—like these jumping spiders—do the same thing". National Geographic. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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