Aname

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Not to be confused with Anama, Anime or Amane.
This article is about the spider genus. For the pseudo DNS record, see CNAME record § ANAME record.

Aname
Black Wishbone.jpg
Fangs of Aname atra
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Anamidae
Genus: Aname
L. Koch, 1873
Species

See text.

The spider genus Aname is endemic to Australia, with one species (Aname tasmanica) found only on Tasmania. It contains the black wishbone spider, A. atra.

Spiders in this genus, together with the related and very similar genera Chenistonia and Namea, are called "wishbone spiders", for the shape of their open silk-lined burrow, which has the shape of the letter "Y", with one arm shorter than the other. Only the longer arm reaches the surface. The shorter arm is believed to allow the spider to survive flooding by trapping an air bubble.

While Aname prefers dry open country and occurs throughout much of Australia (though mostly inland), Chenistonia occurs mostly in south and western Australia, and Namea is only known along the east coasts in rain forests.

The lesser wishbone spider (A. distincta) occurs through lowland open forests of the as far north as Eidsvold and Gayndah, the greater wishbone spider A. pallida from Gladstone along the dry coastal corridors to Cairns.

Bites from Aname are rare, but females of A. inimica (also called "unfriendly" by Aborigines) are reported to have bitten several people, resulting in local pain, redness and soreness.

Species[]

A list of species, the author, and the location of the first collection, include:

  • Aname aragog Harvey, Framenau, Wojcieszek, Rix & Harvey, 2012 - Western Australia
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — Western Australia
  • Aname atra (Strand, 1913) — South Australia
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — New South Wales
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
  • (Main, 1954) — Western Australia
  • (Rainbow, 1914) — Queensland
  • Aname diversicolor (Hogg, 1902) — Queensland
  • Raven, 1984 — Queensland
  • Harvey, Framenau, Wojcieszek, Rix & Harvey, 2012 - Western Australia
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — Western Australia
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
  • Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918 — South Australia
  • Raven, 1985 — Northern Territory
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland, New South Wales
  • Raven, 1984 — Queensland
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) — Western Australia
  • Raven, 2000 — South Australia
  • Harvey, Framenau, Wojcieszek, Rix & Harvey, 2012 - Western Australia
  • Harvey, Framenau, Wojcieszek, Rix & Harvey, 2012 - Western Australia
  • L. Koch, 1873 — Queensland
  • (L. Koch, 1875) — Australia
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Hogg, 1902 — Tasmania
  • (Hogg, 1902) — Southern Australia
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland
  • Raven, 1984 — Queensland
  • Main, 1994 — Western Australia, South Australia
  • (Rainbow & Pulleine, 1918) — Western Australia
  • Raven, 1985 — Queensland, New South Wales

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