Biology:Pahoroides

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pahoroides
Pahoroides.jpg
P. courti female
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Physoglenidae
Genus: Pahoroides
Forster, 1990[1]
Type species
P. whangarei
Forster, 1990
Species

8, see text

Pahoroides is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2]

Species

(As of September 2019) it contains eight species, found on the Polynesian Islands:[1]

  • Pahoroides aucklandica Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011New Zealand
  • Pahoroides balli Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
  • Pahoroides confusa Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
  • Pahoroides courti Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
  • Pahoroides forsteri Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
  • Pahoroides gallina Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
  • Pahoroides kohukohu Fitzgerald & Sirvid, 2011 – New Zealand
  • Pahoroides whangarei Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Pahoroides Forster, 1990. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3215. Retrieved 2019-10-13. 
  2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 193: 1–116. 

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