Mangua facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Mangua |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Physoglenidae |
| Genus: | Mangua Forster, 1990 |
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| M. gunni Forster, 1990
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Mangua is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990. Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Stiphidiidae in 2017.
Species
As of September 2019[update] it contains fourteen species, found on the Polynesian Islands:
- Mangua caswell Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua convoluta Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua flora Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua forsteri (Brignoli, 1983) – New Zealand (Auckland Is., Campbell Is.)
- Mangua gunni Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
- Mangua hughsoni Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua kapiti Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua makarora Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua medialis Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua oparara Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua otira Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua paringa Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua sana Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Mangua secunda Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
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