Barahna

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
Scientific classification
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
8, see text

Species

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

• Barahna booloumba Davies, 2003 (type) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Barahna brooyar Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland)
• Barahna glenelg Davies, 2003 – Australia (Victoria)
• Barahna myall Davies, 2003 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Barahna scoria Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland)
• Barahna taroom Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland)
• Barahna toonumbar Davies, 2003 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Barahna yeppoon Davies, 2003 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

See also

• List of Desidae species

References

1. "Gen. Barahna Davies, 2003". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
2. 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.