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Naatlo

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Naatlo
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiosomatidae
Genus: Naatlo
Coddington, 1986[1]
Type species
N. sutila
Coddington, 1986
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7, see text

Naatlo is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Jonathan A. Coddington in 1986.[2]

They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively hunt for prey.[3] Spiders in the genus have been observed to slingshot themselves at speeds exceeding 1.0m/s with accelerations exceeding 250m/s2.[4]

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