metaltelline

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noun

Any spider of the subfamily Metaltellinae.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounmetaltelline (plural metaltellines)

plural metaltellines

  1. biologyAny spider of the subfamily Metaltellinae.

    No one would claim that Chilean metaltellines are representative even of the Chilean biota in general, but consider the results of spider sampling in Bolivia (Coddington, personal communication; Colwell and Coddington 1994).

    1999, Joel Cracraft, Francesca T. Grifo, The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy, page 46
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Chicago

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