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Brachionopus

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Brachionopus is a genus of South African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.^[2] It was transferred to the Theraphosidae from the Barychelidae in 1985.^[3]

As of June 2020 it contains 4 species, found in South Africa:^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Brachionopus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
^ 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.
^ Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 112.

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Brachionopus is a genus of South African tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. It was transferred to the Theraphosidae from the Barychelidae in 1985.