Mamoea

Mamoea
Mamoea rufa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Desidae
Genus:	Mamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973 [1]
Type species
M. rufa (Berland, 1931)
Species
19, see text

Mamoea is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973. ^[2]

Species

As of April 2019 ^[update] it contains nineteen species, all found in New Zealand: ^[1]

• Mamoea assimilis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea bicolor (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Mamoea cantuaria Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea cooki Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea florae Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea grandiosa Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea hesperis Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea hughsoni Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea inornata Forster & Wilson, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea mandibularis (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Mamoea maorica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea montana Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea monticola Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea otira Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea pilosa (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Mamoea rakiura Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea rufa (Berland, 1931) – New Zealand (Campbell Is.)
• Mamoea unica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand
• Mamoea westlandica Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Mamoea Forster & Wilton, 1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
2. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV". Otago Museum Bulletin. 4: 1–309.