Tauala
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Tauala
| type_species = T. lepidus
| type_species_authority = Wanless, 1988
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 13, see text
}}
Tauala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1988.{{cite journal| last=Wanless| first=F. R.| year=1988| title=A revision of the spider group Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Australian region| journal=New Zealand Journal of Zoology| pages=81–172| volume=15| doi=10.1080/03014223.1988.10422611}} The name "Tauala" is an arbitrary combination of letters.
Species
{{as of|2019|08}} it contains thirteen species, found only in Taiwan and Queensland:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Tauala Wanless, 1988| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-26| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3003| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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)
References
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