Barahna

Barahna
Barahna yeppoon
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

Barahna is a genus of Australian spiders in the family Desidae (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 Desidae after the results of a 2017 genetic study. ^[3]

Species

As of November 2025 ^[update] , it contained 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. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-11-23.
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. PMID   34724759. S2CID   35535038.