Myro (spider)

Myro Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Myro kerguelenensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Toxopidae
Genus:	Myro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 [1]
Type species
M. kerguelenensis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876
Species
7, see text

Myro is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1876. ^[2] Originally placed with the Cybaeidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1967, ^{[3] [4]} and to the Toxopidae in 2017. ^[5]

Species

As of May 2019 ^[update] it contains seven species: ^[1]

• Myro jeanneli Berland, 1947 – Crozet Is.
• Myro kerguelenensis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Kerguelen, Macquarie Is.
  • Myro k. crozetensis Enderlein, 1903 – Crozet Is.
• Myro maculatus Simon, 1903 – Australia (Tasmania)
• Myro marinus (Goyen, 1890) – New Zealand
• Myro paucispinosus Berland, 1947 – Marion Is., Crozet Is.
• Myro pumilus Ledoux, 1991 – Crozet Is.

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Myro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1876). "On a new order and some new genera of Arachnida from Kerguelen's Land". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 44 (2): 258–265. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02560.x.
3. Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). "Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4: 250.
4. Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 69.
5. Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID   34724759. S2CID   35535038.