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Dunstanoides

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Dunstanoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Dunstanoides
Forster & Wilton, 1989[1]
Type species
D. hesperis
(Forster & Wilton, 1973)
Species

9, see text

Dunstanoides is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989.[2]

Species

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Dunstanoides Forster & Wilton, 1989". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-08.
  2. ^ Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981.