Tungari is a genus of brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Robert Raven in 1994. It is endemic to Australia. The name comes from an Aboriginal term meaning "song".[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Barychelidae |
| Genus: | Tungari Raven, 1994[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. kenwayae Raven, 1994
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Species
editAs of April 2019[update] the genus contained four species, all from the Cape York Peninsula region of Far North Queensland:[1][2]
- Tungari aurukun Raven, 1994
- Tungari kenwayae Raven, 1994 (type)
- Tungari mascordi Raven, 1994
- Tungari monteithi Raven, 1994
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Tungari Raven, 1994". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ^ a b Raven, RJ (1994). "Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 35: 291–706.