Tuakana
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| Tuakana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Desidae |
| Genus: | Tuakana Forster, 1970[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. wiltoni Forster, 1970 | |
| Species | |
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Tuakana is a genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970.[2] As of May 2019[update] it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand: T. mirada and T. wiltoni.[1]