''Dunstanoides'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
South Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
intertidal spiders first described by
Norman I. Platnick
Norman Ira Platnick (December 30, 1951 – April 8, 2020) was an American biological systematist and arachnologist. At the time of his death, he was a professor emeritus of the Richard Gilder Graduate School and Peter J. Solomon Family Curator Em ...
in 1989.
Species
it contains nine species, all found in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
:
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Dunstanoides angustiae''
(Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides hesperis''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides hinawa''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides hova''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides kochi''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides mira''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides montana''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides nuntia''
(Marples, 1959) – New Zealand
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Dunstanoides salmoni''
(Forster & Wilton, 1973) – New Zealand
References
Araneomorphae genera
Desidae
Spiders of New Zealand
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