Ciba (spider)

Ciba
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Ctenidae
Genus:	Ciba; Bloom, Binford, Esposito, Alayón, Peterson, Nishida, Loubet-Senear & Agnarsson, 2014
Type species
	C. calzada (Alayón, 1985);
Species
	C. calzada (Alayón, 1985) — Cuba ; C. seibo Alayón & Agnarsson, 2014 — Dominican Republic;

Ciba is a genus of Caribbean wandering spiders first described in 2014.^[2] As of April 2019^[update] it contains only two species.^[1] It is one of two species of eyeless spiders found in a Hispaniola cave. The non-expression of eyes and eye pigment in Ciba spiders is an energy-saving adaption in response to their dark cave habitat.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Ciba Bloom, Binford, Esposito, Alayón, Peterson, Nishida, Loubet-Senear & Agnarsson, 2014". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
^ ^a ^b Bloom, T.; Binford, G.; Esposito, L. A.; Alayón G., G.; Peterson, I.; Nishida, A.; Loubet-Senear, K.; Agnarsson, I. (2014). "Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave". Journal of Arachnology. 42 (2): 148–154. doi:10.1636/k13-84.1. S2CID 53962248.

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[NMBE-1] "Gen. Ciba Bloom, Binford, Esposito, Alayón, Peterson, Nishida, Loubet-Senear & Agnarsson, 2014". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-06.

[Bloo2014-2] Bloom, T.; Binford, G.; Esposito, L. A.; Alayón G., G.; Peterson, I.; Nishida, A.; Loubet-Senear, K.; Agnarsson, I. (2014). "Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave". Journal of Arachnology. 42 (2): 148–154. doi:10.1636/k13-84.1. S2CID 53962248.

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