Biology:Dunstanoides

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Dunstanoides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Dunstanoides
Forster & Wilton, 1989[1]
Type species
D. hesperis
(Forster & Wilton, 1973)
Species

9, see text

Dunstanoides is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989.[2]

Species

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

  • Dunstanoides angustiae (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides hesperis (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides hinawa (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides hova (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides kochi (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides mira (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides montana (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides nuntia (Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
  • Dunstanoides salmoni (Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/137. Retrieved 2019-05-08. 
  2. Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. 

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