# Barrowammo

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon = Barrowammo waldockae
| authority = [Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick), 2002<ref name=NMBE />
}}

'''''Barrowammo''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of North and West [Australia](/source/Australia)n [termite hunters](/source/Ammoxenidae) containing the single species, '''''Barrowammo waldockae'''''. It was  first described by [Norman I. Platnick](/source/Norman_I._Platnick) in 2002,<ref name="Plat2002">{{cite journal |last=Platnick |first=N. I. |year=2002 |title=A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/494 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=271 |pages=1–243 |doi=}}</ref> and has only been found in [Australia](/source/Australia).<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Barrowammo Platnick, 2002| website=World Spider Catalog| access-date=2019-05-08| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/128}}</ref> The name is a [portmanteau](/source/portmanteau) of [Barrow Island](/source/Barrow_Island_(Western_Australia)) and [Ammoxenidae](/source/Ammoxenidae).<ref name="Platnick">{{cite journal |last=Platnick |first=N.I. |year=2002 |title=A revision of the Australasian ground spiders of the families Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Gallieniellidae, and Trochanteriidae (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea) |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/494 |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=271 |pages=18–19 |doi=}}</ref>

Members of this genus are most similar to ''[Austrammo](/source/Austrammo)'', but there are several distinct differences. Notably, they lack [seta](/source/seta)e on the back of the last segment of the [pedipalp](/source/pedipalp), which is a defining characteristic of ''Austrammo''. In males, there are [tubercles](/source/Tubercle_(anatomy)) on the bulb of the pedipalp and a [scutum](/source/Scute) on the back of the [abdomen](/source/abdomen) that doesn't occur in members of ''Austrammo''. In females, the abdomen is rectangular, while those of ''Austrammo'' are triangular.<ref name=Platnick/> These differences were considered enough to create a new genus.

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Category:Ammoxenidae
Category:Spiders of Australia
Category:Monotypic Gnaphosidae genera
Category:Taxa named by Norman I. Platnick

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