''Pahora'' is a

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araneomorph The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (taran ...

spiders in the family

Physoglenidae Physoglenidae is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Alexander Petrunkevitch in 1928 as a subfamily of Pholcidae. It was later moved to Synotaxidae until a study in 2016 showed that they formed a distinct clade. Genera , the Worl ...

that was first described by

Raymond Robert Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand 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 educa ...

in 1990. Originally placed with the

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, it was moved to the

in 2017.

Species

it contains nine species, all found on

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: *'' Pahora cantuaria'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora graminicola'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora kaituna'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora media'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora montana'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora murihiku'' Forster, 1990 (

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) – New Zealand *'' Pahora rakiura'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora taranaki'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand *'' Pahora wiltoni'' Forster, 1990 – New Zealand

References

Araneomorphae genera Physoglenidae Endemic spiders of New Zealand Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Araneomorphae-stub

Species

See also

References