Biology:Aruana

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Aruana
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Aruana
Strand, 1911[1]
Type species
A. silvicola
Strand, 1911
Species
  • A. silvicola Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
  • (Roewer, 1938) – New Guinea A. vanstraeleni
Synonyms[1]
  • Lyssorthrus Roewer, 1938[2]

Aruana is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Embrik Strand in 1911.[3] (As of June 2019) it contains only two species, found only in Papua New Guinea and on the Aru Islands: A. silvicola and A. vanstraeleni.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Aruana Strand, 1911. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2509. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Wanless, F. R. (1988). "A revision of the spider group Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Australian region". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 15: 166. doi:10.1080/03014223.1988.10422611. 
  3. Strand, E. (1911). "Araneae von den Aru- und Kei-Inseln". Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 34: 127–199. 

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