Kingdom Animalia Class Arachnida Family Salticidae Scientific name Rarahu nitida | Phylum Arthropoda Order Araneae Subfamily Agoriinae Rank Genus | |
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Rarahu is a genus of spiders in the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only described species, Rarahu nitida, is endemic to Samoa.
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Name
Berland probably adapted the genus name Rarahu from Pierre Loti's book of the same name, which was published in 1880. Loti himself either used the rare Tahitian word "rarahu", meaning (amongst other things) "to eat tapu things", or changed the name of the volcano "Raraku".
The species name is from Latin nitida "shining", "handsome", or "neat" (a false cognate).
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Rarahu Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA