Joel M. Ledford

Joel M. Ledford, U.S. arachnologist

• California Academy of Sciences Summer Systematics Instimte, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco California 94118 USA.
• Department of Biology, San Francisco State University.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Joel M. Ledford

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2001

• Griswold, C.E. & Ledford, J. 2001. A monograph of the migid trap door spiders of Madagascar and review of the world genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Migidae). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 151: 1–120. Reference page. 

2010

• Ledford, J. & Griswold, C.E. 2010. A study of the subfamily Archoleptonetinae (Araneae, Leptonetidae) with a review of the morphology and relationships for the Leptonetidae. Zootaxa 2391: 1–32. Preview. . Reference page. 

2012

• Griswold, C.E., Audisio, T. & Ledford, J.M. 2012. An extraordinary new family of spiders from caves in the Pacific Northwest (Araneae, Trogloraptoridae, new family). ZooKeys 215: 77–102. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.215.3547 . Reference page. 

2017

• Wheeler, W.C., Coddington, J.A., Crowley, L.M., Dimitrov, D.S., Goloboff, P.A., Griswold, C.E., Hormiga, Prendini, L., Ramírez, M.J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L.M., Álvarez-Padilla, Arnedo, M.A., Benavides Silva, L.R., Benjamin, S.P., Bond, J.S., Grismado, C.J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M.A., Labarque, F.M., Ledford, J., Lopardo, L., Maddison, W.P., Miller, J.A., Piacentini, L.N., Platnick, N.I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C.J., Wood, H.M. & Zhang, J.X. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33: 574–616. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12182 . Reference page.