Biology:Waiporia
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Waiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| W. wiltoni Forster & Platnick, 1985
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Waiporia 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]
Species
(As of June 2019) it contains twelve species, found only in New Zealand:[1]
- Waiporia algida (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia chathamensis Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.)
- Waiporia egmont Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia extensa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia hawea Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia hornabrooki (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia mensa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia modica (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Waiporia owaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia ruahine Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia tuata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Waiporia wiltoni Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gen. Waiporia Forster & Platnick, 1985. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2210. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q6539269 entry
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