Otagoa Wiltoni
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''Otagoa'' is a genus 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 ...
araneomorph spiders in the family
Toxopidae Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940. For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct. A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 2016 ...
, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster in 1970. it contains only three species, all found in New Zealand: ''O. chathamensis'', ''O. nova'', and ''O. wiltoni''.


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Araneomorphae genera Spiders of New Zealand Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster Toxopidae {{Toxopidae-stub