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Porioides

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Porioides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Hahniidae
Genus: Porioides
Forster, 1989[1]
Type species
P. rima
(Forster, 1970)
Species

Porioides is a genus of South Pacific dwarf sheet spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick in 1989.[2] As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in New Zealand: P. rima and P. tasmani.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Porioides Forster, 1989". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  2. ^ Platnick, N. I. (1989). Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981.