Canalidion

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | image = Canalidion montanum m1.jpg | image_caption = ''C. montanum'', adult male | image2 = Canalidion montanum f2.jpg | image2_caption = ''C. montanum'', adult female | taxon = Canalidion montanum | authority = (Emerton, 1882) | parent_authority = Wunderlich, 2008<ref name=NMBE /> }}

'''''Canalidion''''' is a monotypic genus of tangle-web spiders containing the single species, '''''Canalidion montanum'''''. The species was first described by James Emerton in 1882 under the name ''Theridion montanum''.<ref name=Emer1882>{{cite journal| last=Emerton| first=J. H.| year=1882| title=New England spiders of the family Theridiidae| journal=Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences| volume=6| page=10| author-link=James_Henry_Emerton}}</ref> J. Wunderlich moved it to its own genus in 2018, because it had more teeth on the anterior margin of the cheliceral furrow, a basal depression of the cymbium, and an embolus positioned dorsally.<ref name=Wund2008>{{cite journal| last=Wunderlich| first=J.| year=2008| title=On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa| journal=Beiträge zur Araneologie| pages=819–859| volume=5}}</ref> It has a holarctic distribution.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web| title=Gen. Canalidion Wunderlich, 2008| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-10-27| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3460| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>

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Category:Holarctic spiders Category:Monotypic Theridiidae genera