Tuakana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Desidae |
Genus: | Tuakana Forster, 1970[1] |
Type species | |
T. wiltoni Forster, 1970
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Species | |
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Tuakana is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.[2] As of May 2019[update] it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand: T. mirada and T. wiltoni.[1]