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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

17, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:[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

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
  2. 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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