| Nyssus | |
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| S. picta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Nyssus Walckenaer, 18051 |
| Type species | |
| N. coloripes Walckenaer, 1805 | |
| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms1 | |
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Nyssus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805.2
Species
As of March 2019 it contains fifteen species:1
- Nyssus albopunctatus (Hogg, 1896) — Australia (Northern Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania), New Zealand
- Nyssus avidus (Thorell, 1881) — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus coloripes Walckenaer, 1805 — Australia (mainland, Tasmania). Introduced to New Zealand
- Nyssus emu Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus insularis (L. Koch, 1873) — Fiji, Solomon Is.
- Nyssus jaredwardeni Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus jonraveni Raven, 2015 — Australia (South Australia, Queensland)
- Nyssus loureedi Raven, 2015 — Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
- Nyssus luteofinis Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus paradoxus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus pseudomaculatus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Nyssus robertsi Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus semifuscus Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus wendyae Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland)
- Nyssus yuggera Raven, 2015 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
References
References
- "Gen. Nyssus Walckenaer, 1805". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
- Walckenaer, C. A. (1805). Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions.