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Genus: Ornodolomedes Raven & Hebron, 2018 | Family: Dolomedidae Simon, 1876

Ornodolomedes nicholsoni Raven & Hebron, 2018

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:050236

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Western Australia)

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia m (T65675) - (Raven & Hebron, 2018)
Paratype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia 11m 2f (T27644, T67649, T67660, T65932, T110912, T111205, T111262, T111326, T111341, T111346, T111358, T133556, 98/1176) - (Raven & Hebron, 2018)
Allotype: Western Australian Museum (WAM), Perth, Australia f (T111341) - (Raven & Hebron, 2018)
Paratype: Queensland Museum, Brisbane (QMB), Australia 1m (S61023) - (Raven & Hebron, 2018)
Paratype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia 1m 2f (KS115468) - (Raven & Hebron, 2018)

Taxonomic References

Ornodolomedes nicholsoni Raven & Hebron, 2018: 276, f. 58a-d, 59a-f, 63j-l (Dmf) Original description

Ornodolomedes cf. nicholsoni Yu et al., 2025: Suppl. 1: 5, f. S2D-F, S3F, S5C-D, S6F (mf)

References

Raven, R. J. & Hebron, W. (2018). A review of the water spider family Pisauridae in Australia and New Caledonia with descriptions of four new genera and 23 new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 60: 233-381. doi: 10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2018.2017-06 -- Show included taxa

Yu, K. P., Cheng, R. C., Haddad, C. R., Tanikawa, A., Pett, B. L., Piacentini, L., Yip, H. Y., Suzuki, Y., Henrard, A., Painting, C. J., Vink, C. J., Hebets, E. A., Harvey, M. S. & Kuntner, M. (2025). Systematics and evolutionary history of raft and nursery-webspiders (Araneae: Dolomedidae and Pisauridae). Zoologica Scripta 54(3): 421-436 & Suppl. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12719 [[includes correction, p. 436, doi: 10.1111/zsc.12726]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2025-04-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Yu et al., 2025
2020-02-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Raven & Hebron, 2018
2018-04-09	New species inserted	Raven & Hebron, 2018