Sason sundaicum is a species of barychelid trapdoor spiders that is found on trees near the sea, usually closer than 100 metres, although distances of up to five kilometres have been observed.
| Sason sundaicum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Barychelidae |
| Genus: | Sason |
| Species: | S. sundaicum
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| Binomial name | |
| Sason sundaicum Schwendinger, 2003[1]
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They build short nests with two opposing trapdoors, often attached to the bark of living trees, for example Coconut Palms. However, sometimes a nest is built on sides of large boulders. Nests of males are up to two cm long, those of females up to almost three cm. The migid spider Poecilomigas abrahami from South Africa builds very similar nests.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Taxon details Sason sundaicum Schwendinger, 2003". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
- ^ Schwendinger, P.J. (2003). "Two new species of the arboreal trapdoor spider genus Sason (Araneae: Barychelidae) from Southeast Asia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51 (2): 197–207. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2016-03-08.