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Myro (spider)

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Myro is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.^[2] Originally placed with the Cybaeidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1967,^[3]^[4] and to the Toxopidae in 2017.^[5]

As of May 2019 it contains seven species:^[1]

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.

^ ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Myro O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
^ 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. 44 (2): 258–265. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02560.x.
^ 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.
^ Forster, R. R. (1970). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part III". Otago Museum Bulletin. 3: 69.
^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 609. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. S2CID 35535038.

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Myro is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Toxopidae, and was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1876. Originally placed with the Cybaeidae, it was moved to the intertidal spiders in 1967, and to the Toxopidae in 2017.