Pounamuella Explained

Pounamuella is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.^[1]

Species

it contains eight species, found only in New Zealand:^[2]

• Pounamuella australis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.)
• Pounamuella complexa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Pounamuella hauroko Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella hollowayae (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Pounamuella insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella kuscheli Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand
• Pounamuella ramsayi (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand
• Pounamuella vulgaris (Forster, 1956) (type) – New Zealand

See also

• List of Orsolobidae species

Notes and References

1. Forster. R. R.. Platnick. N. I.. 1985. A review of the austral spider family Orsolobidae (Arachnida, Araneae), with notes on the superfamily Dysderoidea. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1–230. 181. Raymond Robert Forster. Norman I. Platnick.
2. Gen. Pounamuella Forster & Platnick, 1985. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.