Tangata (spider)
Tangata is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.[2]
| Tangata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 | |
| Species | |
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17, see text | |
Species
As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:[1]
- Tangata alpina (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata furcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata horningi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata murihiku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
- Tangata orepukiensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata parafurcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata plena (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata rakiura (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata stewartensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata sylvester Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata tautuku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
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See also
References
- "Gen. Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.
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