Biology:Taurongia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Taurongia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Taurongia
Hogg, 1901[1]
Type species
T. punctata
(Hogg, 1900)
Species
  • T. ambigua Gray, 2005 – Australia (Victoria)
  • (Hogg, 1900) – Australia (Victoria) T. punctata

Taurongia is a genus of Australia n intertidal spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1901.[2] (As of May 2019) it consists of only two species: T. ambigua and T. punctata.[1] Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1967.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Taurongia Hogg, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/741. Retrieved 2019-06-01. 
  2. Hogg, H. R. (1901). "On Australian and New Zealand spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71 (1): 218–279. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08176.x. 
  3. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 267. 

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