Mamoea facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Mamoea |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Desidae |
| Genus: | Mamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973 |
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| M. rufa (Berland, 1931)
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Mamoea is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973.
Species
As of April 2019[update] it contains nineteen species, all found in New Zealand:
- 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
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