Taurongia
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| Taurongia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Desidae |
| Genus: | Taurongia Hogg, 1901[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. punctata (Hogg, 1900) | |
| Species | |
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Taurongia is a genus of Australian intertidal spiders that was first described by Henry Roughton Hogg in 1901.[2] As of May 2019[update] it consists of only two species: T. ambigua and T. punctata.[1] Originally placed with the Amaurobiidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1967.[3]