. 2006 Feb 14;2(2):266–270. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0442

Table 1.

Families of spiders and numbers of species unique to and shared between Baltic and Dominican Republic ambers. (†=strictly fossil family. Predation strategies: a=ambusher, h=hunter, u=unknown, w=web spinner.)

	Baltic		shared families		Dominican Republic
2	Baltsuccinidae^†u	22	Anapidae^w	1	Barychelidae^a	1
12	Ephalmatoridae^†u	1	Anyphaenidae^h	3	Caponiidae^h	1
5	Insecutoridae^†u	21	Araneidae^w	7	Ctenidae^h	1
6	Protheridiidae^†u	3	Clubionidae^h	1	Cyrtaucheniidae^a	1
1	Spatiatoridae^†u	28	Corinnidae^h	5	Filistatidae^w	1
5	Agelenidae^w	33	Dictynidae^w	15	Lycosidae^h	1
1	Amaurobiidae^w	1	Dipluridae^w	2	Microstigmatidae^h	1
11	Archaeidae^a	2	Gnaphosidae^h	1	Miturgidae^h	1
2	Borboropactidae^a	5	Hersiliidae^a	3	Ochyroceratidae^w	2
4	Ctenizidae^a	39	Linyphiidae^w	5	Palpimanidae^h	1
13	Cyatholipidae^w	4	Liocranidae^h	1	Philodromidae^h	1
1	Deinopidae^a	9	Mimetidae^h	1	Selenopidae^h	2
1	Desidae?^u	4	Mysmenidae^w	2	Sicariidae^w	3
6	Dysderidae^h	10	Nesticidae^w	1	Sparassidae^h	1
5	Hahniidae^w	4	Oecobiidae^w	1	Theraphosidae^a	1
5	Leptonetidae^w	12	Oonopidae^h	6
7	Pimoidae^w	1	Oxyopidae^h	1
1	Plectreuridae^w	2	Pholcidae^w	10
1	Synaphridae^u	2	Pisauridae^h	1
26	Synotaxidae^w	40	Salticidae^h	16
1	Telemidae^w	1	Scytodidae^w	3
4	Trechaleidae^h	6	Segestriidae^a	1
8	Zodariidae^h	1	Tetrablemmidae^w	1
13	Zoropsidae^h	21	Tetragnathidae^w	9
		47	Theridiidae^w	39
		7	Theridiosomatidae^w	3
		4	Thomisidae^a	2
		17	Trochanteriidae^h	7
		14	Uloboridae^w	2
	24 fams (141 spp.)		29 fams (361 and 150 spp.)		15 fams (19 spp.)
	5.88 spp./family		12.44 and 5.17 spp./family		1.27 spp./family