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| Tangata | |
|---|---|
| Tangata rakiura | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Orsolobidae |
| Genus: | Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985
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| Species | |
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17, see text | |
Tangata 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 seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:[1]