Maoriata is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.[2] As of June 2019[update] it contains only three species, found only in New Zealand.[1]
| Maoriata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Maoriata Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. magna (Forster, 1956)
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Species
edit- Maoriata magna (Forster, 1956)
- Maoriata montana Forster & Platnick, 1985
- Maoriata vulgaris Forster & Platnick, 1985
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Maoriata Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I. (1985). "A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 181: 1–230.
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