{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Tauala | authority = Wanless, 1988<ref name=NMBE /> | 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.<ref name=Wanl1988>{{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}}</ref> The name "Tauala" is an arbitrary combination of letters.<ref name=Wanl1988 />
==Species== {{as of|2019|08}} it contains thirteen species, found only in Taiwan and Queensland:<ref name=NMBE>{{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=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3003| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Tauala alveolatus'' <small>Wanless, 1988</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala athertonensis'' <small>Gardzinska, 1996</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala australiensis'' <small>Wanless, 1988</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala bilobatus'' <small>Żabka & Patoleta, 2015</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala daviesae'' <small>Wanless, 1988</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala elongata'' <small>Peng & Li, 2002</small> – Taiwan (=''Tauala elongatus'' as corrected formation of suffix inflection for gender agreement). *''Tauala lepidus'' <small>Wanless, 1988</small> (type) – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala minutus'' <small>Wanless, 1988</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala ottoi'' <small>Żabka & Patoleta, 2015</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala palumaensis'' <small>Żabka & Patoleta, 2015</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala setosus'' <small>Żabka & Patoleta, 2015</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala splendidus'' <small>Wanless, 1988</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Tauala zborowskii'' <small>Żabka & Patoleta, 2015</small> – Australia (Queensland)
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Spiders of Taiwan
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