Tangata (spider) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Tangata (spider) |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985 |
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| T. nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985
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Tangata is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains seventeen species, found only on the Polynesian Islands:
- Tangata alpina (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata furcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata horningi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata murihiku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
- Tangata orepukiensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata parafurcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata plena (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata rakiura (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata stewartensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
- Tangata sylvester Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata tautuku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
- Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
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