Myro (spider) explained

Myro is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.^[1] Originally placed with the Cybaeidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1967,^{[2] [3]} and to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[4]

Species

it contains seven species:^[5]

• Myro jeanneli Berland, 1947 – Crozet Is.
• Myro kerguelenensis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (type) – Kerguelen, Macquarie Is.
  • Myro k. crozetensis Enderlein, 1903 – Crozet Is.
• Myro maculatus Simon, 1903 – Australia (Tasmania)
• Myro marinus (Goyen, 1890) – New Zealand
• Myro paucispinosus Berland, 1947 – Marion Is., Crozet Is.
• Myro pumilus Ledoux, 1991 – Crozet Is.

Notes and References

1. Pickard-Cambridge. O.. 1876. On a new order and some new genera of Arachnida from Kerguelen's Land.. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 258–265. 44. 2. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02560.x.
2. Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4. 250.
3. Forster. R. R.. 1970. The spiders of New Zealand. Part III. Otago Museum Bulletin. 3. 69.
4. Wheeler. W. C.. etal. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. 33. 6. 609. 10.1111/cla.12182. 35535038.
5. Gen. Myro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-31. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.