Kaiya | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Gradungulidae |
Genus: | Kaiya Gray, 1987[1] |
Type species | |
K. terama Gray, 1987
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Species | |
4, see text |
Kaiya is a genus of Australian large-clawed spiders that was first described by Raymond Robert Forster, Norman I. Platnick & Michael R. Gray in 1987.[2]
Species
[edit]As of May 2019[update] it contains four species:[1]
- Kaiya bemboka Gray, 1987 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Kaiya brindabella (Moran, 1985) – Australian Capital Territory
- Kaiya parnabyi Gray, 1987 – Australia (Victoria)
- Kaiya terama Gray, 1987 (type) – Australia (New South Wales)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Kaiya Gray, 1987". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ Forster, R. R.; Platnick, N. I.; Gray, M. R. (1987). "A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 185 (1): 1–116. hdl:2246/969. ISSN 0003-0090. Wikidata Q93875424.