Muritaia

Muritaia is a genus of South Pacific tangled nest spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.[2]

Muritaia
Muritaia longispinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Amaurobiidae
Genus: Muritaia
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
M. suba
Forster & Wilton, 1973
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species, all found in New Zealand:[1]

  • Muritaia kaituna Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Muritaia longispinata Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Muritaia orientalis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Muritaia parabusa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Muritaia suba Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
gollark: *all is monadic***
gollark: ***monad***
gollark: Plural.
gollark: No.
gollark: You can't just return `b` (meaning any type) because the functions you use do not in fact return any type.

References

  1. "Gen. Muritaia Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.


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