Tangaroa (spider)

Tangaroa is a genus of South Pacific cribellate orb-weavers first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.[2]

Tangaroa
T. tahitiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Uloboridae
Genus: Tangaroa
Lehtinen, 1967[1]
Type species
T. tahitiensis (Berland, 1934)
Species

5, see text

Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]

  • Tangaroa beattyi Opell, 1983 — Caroline Is.
  • Tangaroa dissimilis (Berland, 1924) — Vanuatu, New Caledonia
  • Tangaroa pukapukan Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015 — Cook Is.
  • Tangaroa tahitiensis (Berland, 1934) — French Polynesia (Marquesas Is., Society Is., Austral Is.)
  • Tangaroa vaka Salvatierra, Brescovit & Tourinho, 2015 — Cook Is.

References

  1. "Gen. Tangaroa Lehtinen, 1967". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  2. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 199–468.

"Tangaroa" at the Encyclopedia of Life


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