Moruga (spider)
Appearance
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Moruga | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Barychelidae |
Genus: | Moruga Raven, 1994[1] |
Type species | |
M. thickthorni Raven, 1994 | |
Species | |
8, see text |
Moruga is a genus of Australian brushed trapdoor spiders, found in the states of Queensland (QLD) or Western Australia (WA), that was first described by arachnologist Robert Raven in 1994.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] the genus contained eight species:[1]
- Moruga doddi Raven, 1994 — QLD
- Moruga fuliginea (Thorell, 1881) — QLD
- Moruga heatherae Raven, 1994 — QLD
- Moruga insularis Raven, 1994 — QLD
- Moruga kimberleyi Raven, 1994 — WA
- Moruga thickthorni Raven, 1994 — QLD
- Moruga thorsborneorum Raven, 1994 — QLD
- Moruga wallaceae Raven, 1994 — QLD
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Moruga Raven, 1994". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- ^ Raven, R. J. (1994). "Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 35: 291–706.