Nyssus

Nyssus
S. picta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Corinnidae
Genus:	Nyssus Walckenaer, 1805[1]
Type species
N. coloripes Walckenaer, 1805
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Anchognatha Supunna

Nyssus is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1805.[2]

Species

As of March 2019^[update] 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

1. "Gen. Nyssus Walckenaer, 1805". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
2. 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.