This species is 55% complete

Hysterocrates gigas Pocock, 1897

Cameroon ♂♀

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Hysterocrates gigas

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Taxonomy and History

Scientific Name : Hysterocrates gigas

Described By: Pocock, 1897
Researcher Profile: Reginald Innes Pocock
Genus: Hysterocrates
Common Name: Cameroon Red Baboon

- Hysterocrates gigas Pocock, 1897
- Hysterocrates gigas Smith, 1990
- Hysterocrates gigas Peters, 1998
- Hysterocrates gigas Peters, 2000
- Hysterocrates gigas Schmidt, 2003

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Hysterocrates gigas

Holotype : ♀ (BMNH 86-116), Cameroon

Paratype : ♂ (BMNH 74-33), Cameroon

♀ (BMNH 29-04-1933), Cameroon

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On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum.

Reginald Innes Pocock ,1897

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897
- Pterinochilus murinus, Eumenophorus clementsi, Selenogyrus caeruleus, Selenogyrus aureus, Hysterocrates laticeps, Hysterocrates gigas, Hysterocrates crassipes, Heterothele spinipes, Anoploscelus celeripes, Ceratogyrus darlingi, Monocentropus balfouri, Brachionopus robustus, Pterinochilus vorax, Harpactira lineata, Harpactira curvipes, Harpactira chrysogaster, Ceratogyrus marshalli, Stromatopelma calceatum griseipes

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