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Araneae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
ORDER

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Arachnida
order
Araneae

Name

Homonyms
Araneae
Common names
Edderkopper in Danish
Spider in English
Spider in English
Spiders in English
Spiders in English
araignées in French
aranhas in Portuguese
arañas in Spanish
spider in English
spiders in language.
spiders in English
spinnen in Dutch
Spider in English
spiders in English
spindlar in Swedish
Invertebrates (Spiders) in English
Invertebrates (Spiders) in English
Invertebrates (Spiders) in English
Spider in English
Spinnen in German
Spinnen in German
True Spiders in English
True Spiders in English
Webspinnen in German
Webspinnen in German
araneidi in Italian
araneidi in Italian
damhain-allaidh in Scottish Gaelic
damhan-allaidh in Scottish Gaelic
echte Spinnen in German
echte Spinnen in German
edderkopper in Norwegian
edderkopper in Norwegian
pajki in Slovenian
pajki in Slovenian
pająki in Polish
pająki in Polish
poca-salainn in Scottish Gaelic
pocannan-salainn in Scottish Gaelic
ragni in Italian
ragni in Italian
spiders in English
spiders in English
spindlar in Swedish
spindlar in Swedish
true spiders in English
true spiders in English
vorai in Lithuanian
vorai in Lithuanian
örümcekler takımı in Turkish

Bibliographic References

  1. Bryant, Elizabeth B: The Argiopidae of Hispaniola
  2. Emerton, James H: New England spiders of the family Epeiridae
  3. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2011-02-08 23:00:00) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  4. Harvey, Mark S., 2002: The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders?. The Journal of Arachnology, vol. 30, no. 2. 357-372.
  5. Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
  6. Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
  7. Hentz, Nicholas M: Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States
  8. Levi, Herbert W: American Neoscona and corrections to previous revisions of Neotropical orb-weavers (Araneae: Araneidae).
  9. Marx, George: Catalogue of the described Araneae of temperate North America
  10. McCook, Henry C (1894) American spiders and their spinningwork
  11. Peckham, George W,Peckham, Elizabeth G: Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico
  12. Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick O: On cteniform spiders from the lower Amazons and other regions of North and South America, with a list of all known species of these groups hitherto recorded from the New World
  13. Roberts, M.J. (1998)
  14. Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, et al., 2015: Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6, e0130114.
  15. Salvin, Osbert,Pickard-Cambridge, Octavius,Godman, Frederick D (1889) Biologia Centrali-Americana
  16. Simon, Eugène (1893) Histoire naturelle des araignées
  17. Simon, Eugène: On the spiders of the island of St Vincent. III
  18. Valerio, Carlos E: A species of Hebestatis (Araneae, Ctenizidae) from Costa Rica
  19. Walckenaer, Charles A (1805) Tableau des aranéides ou caractères essentiels des tribus, genres, familles et races que renferme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions
  20. Wheeler, William H,Peckham, George W,Peckham, Elizabeth G: Spiders of the subfamily Lyssomanae
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