Tauala
| Tauala | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Tauala Wanless, 1988 |
| Type species | |
| T. lepidus Wanless, 1988 | |
| Species | |
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13, see text | |
Tauala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1988. The name "Tauala" is an arbitrary combination of letters.
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains thirteen species, found only in Taiwan and Queensland:
- Tauala alveolatus Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala athertonensis Gardzinska, 1996 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala australiensis Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala bilobatus Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala daviesae Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala elongata Peng & Li, 2002 – Taiwan (=Tauala elongatus as corrected formation of suffix inflection for gender agreement).
- Tauala lepidus Wanless, 1988 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala minutus Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala ottoi Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala palumaensis Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala setosus Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala splendidus Wanless, 1988 – Australia (Queensland)
- Tauala zborowskii Żabka & Patoleta, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)