Nihoa (spider)

Nihoa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Barychelidae
Genus: Nihoa
Raven & Churchill, 1992[1]
Type species
N. mahina
Churchill & Raven, 1992
Species

23, see text

Nihoa is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Tracey Churchill & Robert Raven in 1992. It is named after the island Nihoa, where the type species (N. mahina) is endemic.[2]

Male Nihoan trapdoor spiders (N. hawaiiensis) grow to almost 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long, including chelicerae. The females are larger, growing up to 21 millimetres (0.83 in).[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Churchill, T. B.; Raven, R. J. (1992). "Systematics of the intertidal trapdoor spider genus Idioctis (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) in the western Pacific with a new genus from the northeast". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 32: 9–30.
  3. ^ Raven, Robert J. (1988-12-22). "A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2929). American Museum of Natural History: 1–14.