Barahna is a genus of Australian intertidal spiders that was first described by V. T. Davies in 2003.[2] The name is derived from baran-barahn, the Bundjalung word for "spider".[2] Originally placed with the Stiphidiidae,[2] it was moved to the intertidal spiders after the results of a 2017 genetic study.[3]

Barahna
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Desidae
Genus: Barahna
Davies, 2003[1]
Type species
B. booloumba
Davies, 2003
Species

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Species

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As of September 2019 it contains eight species, found in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Barahna Davies, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. ^ a b c Davies, V. T. (2003). "Barahna, a new spider genus from eastern Australia (Araneae: Amaurobioidea)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 49: 237–250.
  3. ^ Wheeler, W. C.; et al. (2017). "The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling". Cladistics. 33 (6): 606. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. PMID 34724759. S2CID 35535038.