Pounamuella

Pounamuella
Pounamuella australis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Orsolobidae
Genus:	Pounamuella Forster & Platnick, 1985 [1]
Type species
P. vulgaris (Forster, 1956)
Species
8, see text
Synonyms
Pounamua

Pounamuella 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

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

• Pounamuella australis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
• Pounamuella complexa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Pounamuella hauroko Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella hollowayae (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Pounamuella insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella kuscheli Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella ramsayi (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Pounamuella vulgaris (Forster, 1956) (type) – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

References

1. "Gen. Pounamuella 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.