- Nihoa (genus)
Taxobox
name = "Nihoa"
image_width = 250px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Arachnida
ordo =Araneae
subordo =Mygalomorphae
familia =Barychelidae
genus = "Nihoa"
genus_authority = Raven & Churchill, 1992
diversity_link = List of Barychelidae species#Nihoa
diversity = 24 species
type_species =
type_species_authority =
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text."Nihoa" is a
spider genus in the mygalomorph familyBarychelidae .Name
The genus is named after the island
Nihoa , where one of the species ("N. mahina") is endemic.Appearance
"N. hawaiiensis" males have a length of almost 15 mm, including cheliceres; females are up to 21 mm.
Distribution
Species of this genus occur in
Oceania .pecies
* "
Nihoa annulata " (Kulczynski, 1908) —New Guinea
* "Nihoa annulipes " (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
* "Nihoa aussereri " (L. Koch, 1874) —Palau
* "Nihoa bisianumu " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa courti " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa crassipes " (Rainbow, 1898) — New Guinea
* "Nihoa gressitti " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa gruberi " Raven, 1994 — New Ireland
* "Nihoa hawaiiensis " (Raven, 1988) —Hawai'i
* "Nihoa itakara " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa kaindi " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa karawari " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa lambleyi " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa madang " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa mahina " Churchill & Raven, 1992 — Hawai'i
* "Nihoa maior " (Kulczynski, 1908) — New Guinea
* "Nihoa mambulu " Raven, 1994 —Solomon Islands
* "Nihoa pictipes " (Pocock, 1899) — New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Solomon Islands
* "Nihoa raleighi " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa tatei " Raven, 1994 — New Guinea
* "Nihoa vanuatu " Raven, 1994 —New Hebrides
* "Nihoa variata " (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
* "Nihoa verireti " Raven, 1994 — New GuineaReferences
* Churchill, T. B. & R. J. Raven. 1992. Systematics of the intertidal trapdoor spider genus "Idioctis" (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) in the western Pacific with a new genus from the northeast. "Memoirs of the Queensland Museum" 32: 9-30. ( [http://www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qmuseum.qld.gov.au%2Forganisation%2Fsections%2Flibrary%2Fmemoirs%2Fmemoirs_webquery.htm&TN=MEMOIRS&SN=AUTO13200&SE=825&RN=0&MR=0&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=0&CS=0&XP=&RF=Memoirs_www_report&EF=&DF=Memoirs_www_record&RL=1&EL=1&DL=1&NP=1&ID=&MF=&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=779&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&BG=&FG=&QS=MEMOIRS_WEBQUERY&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 Abstract] )
* A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae). "American Museum Novitates" 2929:1-14. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5139/1/N2929.pdf PDF] (first description of "N. hawaiiensis")
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