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Nuisiana
Sign in to saveNuisiana is a monotypic genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders containing the single species, Nuisiana arboris. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973, and has only been found in New Zealand.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyDesidae
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Nuisiana is a monotypic genus of South Pacific intertidal spiders containing the single species, Nuisiana arboris. It was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & C. L. Wilton in 1973, and has only been found in New Zealand.
==Taxonomy== This species was described in 1959 by Brian John Marples from female specimens. The Nuisiana genus was described in 1973 by Ray Forster and Cecil Wilton. The holotype is stored in the Otago Museum.
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