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|authority=[[Raymond Robert Forster|Forster]], 1955<br />
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'''''Gradungula''''' is a [[monotypic taxon|monotypic]] [[genus]] of [[Oceania|South Pacific]] [[Gradungulidae|large-clawed spiders]] containing the single species, '''''Gradungula sorenseni'''''. It is only found in [[New Zealand]].<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal|title=Gen. Gradungula Forster, 1955|website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0|access-date=2019-06-07|year=2019|publisher=Natural History Museum Bern|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/1012|doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> <br />
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==Etymology==<br />
The genus name is derived from [[Latin]] ''{{lang|la|[[:wikt:gradus|gradus]]}}'' "step" and ''{{lang|la|[[:wikt:ungula|ungula]]}}'' "claw", referring to the enlarged front leg claws of this [[species]]. These claws also occur in other species of the family [[Gradungulidae]].<ref name="NMBE" /> The species name "''sorenseni''" is named after Jack Sorensen, the discoverer of the species.<ref>Forster, Ray; Forster, Lyn (1999). ''Spiders Of New Zealand And Their World Wide Kin''. Otago, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. pp. 119–124.</ref><br />
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== Taxonomy ==<br />
''Gradungula sorenseni'' was first described by [[Raymond Robert Forster]] in 1955.<ref name=Fors1955>{{cite journal|last=Forster|first=R. R.|year=1955|title=A new family of spiders of the sub-order Hypochilomorphae.|journal=Pacific Science|pages=277–285|volume=9|hdl=10125/12859}}</ref><br />
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== Distribution ==<br />
''Gradungula sorenseni'' is distributed in forests throughout the western [[South Island]] and throughout [[Stewart Island]]. <ref>Forster, R. R., Platnick, N. I. & Gray, M. R. (1987). A review of the spider superfamilies Hypochiloidea and Austrochiloidea (Araneae, Araneomorphae). ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'' '''185''': 1-116.</ref><br />
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