''Paramamoea'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

intertidal spiders, 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 ...

& C. L. Wilton in 1973.

Species

it contains ten species, all found in

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 isla ...

: *'' Paramamoea aquilonalis'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea arawa'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea incerta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea incertoides'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea insulana'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea pandora'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea paradisica'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea parva'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea urewera'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand *'' Paramamoea waipoua'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 – New Zealand

References

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