Biology:Mamoea

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Mamoea
Mamoea rufa.jpg
Mamoea rufa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Mamoea
Forster & Wilton, 1973[1]
Type species
M. rufa
(Berland, 1931)
Species

19, see text

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

Species

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

  • Mamoea assimilis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea bicolor (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
  • Mamoea cantuaria Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea cooki Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea florae Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea grandiosa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea hughsoni Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea inornata Forster & Wilson, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea mandibularis (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
  • Mamoea maorica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea montana Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea monticola Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea otira Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea pilosa (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
  • Mamoea rakiura Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea rufa (Berland, 1931) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
  • Mamoea unica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
  • Mamoea westlandica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Mamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/144. 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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