| Anasaitis canalis | |
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| Male Anasaitis canalis in Panama | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Anasaitis |
| Species: | A. canalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Anasaitis canalis (Chamberlin, 1925) | |
Anasaitis canalis is a species of spider from the genus Anasaitis . [1] It was originally described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1925.
Anasaitis canalis was originally named as Saitis canalis. It is a spider of about 4 mm in length. This little spider has a dusky brown behind, with the eye region black with some purple and green reflections. It is also covered with yellowish-gray hair, but the first and second legs have long black hair.
Anasaitis canalis was originally described by a specimen found on Barro Colorado Island, an island in the Panama Canal. Recent observation place this species primarily in Central America, [2] although it has also been reported from the Caribbean region of Colombia. [3]
Ralph Vary Chamberlin was an American biologist, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the School of Medicine and served as its first dean, and later became head of the zoology department. He also taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for over a decade at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he described species from around the world.
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