Pounamuella is a genus of Polynesian araneomorph spiders in the family Orsolobidae, and was first described by Raymond Robert Forster & Norman I. Platnick in 1985.
Species it contains eight species, found only in New Zealand: Pounamuella australis (Forster, 1964) – New Zealand (Auckland Is.) Pounamuella complexa (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand Pounamuella hauroko Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Pounamuella hollowayae (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand Pounamuella insula Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Pounamuella kuscheli Forster & Platnick, 1985 – New Zealand Pounamuella ramsayi (Forster, 1956) – New Zealand Pounamuella vulgaris (Forster, 1956) (type) – New Zealand
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