Pahora

Pahora
Pahora spp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Physoglenidae
Genus:	Pahora Forster, 1990 [1]
Type species
P. murihiku Forster, 1990
Species
9, see text

Pahora is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Physoglenidae that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1990. ^[2] Originally placed with the Synotaxidae, it was moved to the Physoglenidae in 2017. ^[3]

Species

As of September 2019 ^[update] it contains nine species, all found on New Zealand: ^[1]

• Pahora cantuaria Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora graminicola Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora kaituna Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora media Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora montana Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora murihiku Forster, 1990 (type) – New Zealand
• Pahora rakiura Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora taranaki Forster, 1990 – New Zealand
• Pahora wiltoni Forster, 1990 – New Zealand

References

1. "Gen. Pahora Forster, 1990". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Coddington, J. (1990). "A proposal and review of the spider family Synotaxidae (Araneae, Araneoidea), with notes on theridiid interrelationships". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 193: 1–116.
3. Dimitrov, D.; et al. (2017). "Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)". Cladistics. 33 (3): 242. doi: 10.1111/cla.12165 . PMID   34715728.