Tangata (spider)

Genus of spiders

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

Species

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]

## Species

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As of June 2019[update] it contains seventeen species, found only in New Zealand:[1]

* Tangata alpina (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata furcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata horningi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata kohuka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata murihiku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata nigra Forster & Platnick, 1985 (type) – New Zealand
* Tangata orepukiensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata otago Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata parafurcata Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata plena (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata pouaka Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata rakiura (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata stewartensis (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
* Tangata sylvester Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata tautuku Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata townsendi Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
* Tangata waipoua Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand

## See also

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* List of Orsolobidae species

## References

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1. ^ a b "Gen. Tangata Forster & Platnick, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-04.
2. ^ 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: 1–230.1-230&rft.date=1985&rft.aulast=Forster&rft.aufirst=R.+R.&rft.au=Platnick,+N.+I.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Tangata+(spider)" class="Z3988">

Taxon identifiers

Tangata|

* Wikidata: Q5517310
* Wikispecies: Tangata
* ADW: Tangata
* BioLib: 465859
* CoL: 645HW
* EoL: 111880
* GBIF: 2180238
* iNaturalist: 378309
* IRMNG: 1364399
* ITIS: 849474
* NZOR: a0bffbc1-93aa-404e-8819-c2e33f429b11
* Open Tree of Life: 4696609
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00579

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