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Gasparia Manneringi
''Gasparia'' ''manneringi'' is a species of Toxopidae spider that is endemic to New Zealand.Forster, R. R. (1970)The spiders of New Zealand. Part III ''Otago Museum Bulletin'' 3: 1-184. Taxonomy This species was first described as ''Myro manneringi'' by Ray Forster in 1964 from male and female specimens. It was most recently revised in 1970, in which it was moved to the ''Gasparia'' genus. The holotype is stored in Canterbury Museum. Description The male is recorded at 2.88mm in length whereas the female is 2.61mm. The male cephalothorax is coloured pale yellow brown. The legs and abdomen are creamy white. The female cephalothorax is pale reddish brown. Distribution This species is only known from Snares Islands, New Zealand. Conservation status Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System The New Zealand Threat Classification System is used by the Department of Conservation to assess conservation priorities of species in New Zealand. The system was developed becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand Arachnology, arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of The Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educated at Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University College, gaining BSc, MSc(Hons) and DSc degrees. Forster was an entomologist at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, National Museum in Wellington from 1940 to 1947, with an interruption for military service during World War II. Between 1942 and 1945 he served first in the army and then as a naval radar mechanic.Ray Forster obituary . International Society of Arachnology. Retrieved 14 February 2013. He was appointed zoologist and assistant director at Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, Canterbury Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 led to the family being revived. Genera , the World Spider Catalog accepts the following genera: *'' Gasparia'' Marples, 1956 – New Zealand *'' Gohia'' Dalmas, 1917 – New Zealand *'' Hapona'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Hulua'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Jamara'' Davies, 1995 – Australia *'' Laestrygones'' Urquhart, 1894 – New Zealand, Australia *''Lamina Lamina may refer to: People * Saa Emerson Lamina, Sierra Leonean politician * Tamba Lamina, Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat Science and technology * Planar lamina, a two-dimensional planar closed surface with mass and density, in mathem ...'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Midgee'' Davies, 1995 – Australia *'' Myro'' O. Pickard-Cambridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of island countries, sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The Geography of New Zealand, country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps (), owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. Capital of New Zealand, New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and subsequently developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gasparia
''Gasparia'' is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by Brian J. Marples in 1956. Originally placed with the intertidal spiders, it was moved to the Toxopidae in 2017. Species it contains twenty-two species, all found in New Zealand: *'' Gasparia busa'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia coriacea'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia delli'' (Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is., Auckland Is., Campbell Is.) *'' Gasparia dentata'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia edwardsi'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia kaiangaroa'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand (Chatham Is.) *'' Gasparia littoralis'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia lomasi'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia mangamuka'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia manneringi'' (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Snares Is.) *'' Gasparia montana'' Forster, 1970 – New Zealand *'' Gasparia nava'' Forster, 1970 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
The Canterbury Museum is a museum located in the Christchurch Central City, central city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the city's Cultural Precinct. The museum was established in 1867 with Julius von Haast – whose collection formed its core – as its first director. The building is registered as a "Historic Place – Category I" by Heritage New Zealand. History Construction The building, a Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival constructed on a design by Benjamin Mountfort, opened in 1870. Two years after its opening, the single-storey building was expanded with an additional floor in the Gothic Revival architecture, Victorian Gothic style. The museum continued to grow over the next decade, with an addition built on in 1876 and an interior courtyard roofed in 1882. In 1958, a new wing was added adjacent to Christ's College, Christchurch, Christ's College, and another was built on in 1977. The building was strengthened in the mid-1990s and a four-storey block was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snares Islands
The Snares Islands (; officially Snares Islands / Tini Heke), known colloquially as The Snares, is a group of uninhabited islands lying about south of New Zealand's South Island and to the south-southwest of Stewart Island / Rakiura. The Snares consist of the main North East Island and the smaller Broughton Island and Alert Stack, as well as the Western Chain Islands some to the west-southwest. Collectively, the Snares have a total land area of . The islands are listed with the New Zealand Outlying Islands. The islands are an immediate part of New Zealand, not part of any region or district, but instead ''Area Outside Territorial Authority'', like all the other outlying islands except the Solander Islands. History The islands were already known to the Māori, who called one of the larger islands ''Te Taniwha'' ("The sea-monster"). The island group was first sighted by Europeans on 23 November 1791 independently by the two ships HMS ''Discovery'' under Captain Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Threat Classification System
The New Zealand Threat Classification System is used by the Department of Conservation to assess conservation priorities of species in New Zealand. The system was developed because the IUCN Red List, a similar conservation status system, had some shortcomings for the unique requirements of conservation ranking in New Zealand. plants, animals, and fungi are evaluated, though the lattermost has yet to be published. Algae were assessed in 2005 but not reassessed since. Other protist A protist ( ) or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus. Protists do not form a natural group, or clade, but are a paraphyletic grouping of all descendants of the last eukaryotic common ancest ...s have not been evaluated. Categories Species that are ranked are assigned categories: ;Threatened :This category has three major divisions: :*Nationally Critical - equivalent to the IUCN category of Critically endangered :*Nationally Endangered - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiders Described In 1964
Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 53,034 spider species in 136 families have been recorded by taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel. However, as there is currently neither paleontological nor embryological evidence that spiders ever had a separat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
