Pahora is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990.[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017.[3]
Pahora | |
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Pahora spp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Physoglenidae |
Genus: | Pahora Forster, 1990[1] |
Type species | |
P. murihiku Forster, 1990
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Species | |
9, see text |
Species
editAs of September 2019[update] it contains nine species, all found on New Zealand:[1]
- Pahora cantuaria Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora graminicola Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora kaituna Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora media Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora montana Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora murihiku Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
- Pahora rakiura Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora taranaki Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
- Pahora wiltoni Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Pahora Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
- ^ Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi:10.1111/cla.12165. PMID 34715728.