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Cantuaria

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Cantuaria is a genus of South Pacific armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1902.[3] From 1985 to 2006 it was merged with former genus Misgolas, now Arbanitis.[4][5]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
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Cantuaria
Cantuaria dendyi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Idiopidae
Genus: Cantuaria
Hogg, 1902[1]
Type species
C. dendyi
(Hogg, 1901)
Species

43, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Korua Todd, 1945[2]
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Species

As of May 2019 the genus contained forty-three species, almost all from New Zealand (NZ), with one from the Australian state of Tasmania (TAS):[1]

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