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This category contains articles about spiders that have an Oceanian native distribution, rather than being limited to particular regions or countries in Oceania. "Oceania" is here taken to include Australia, New Zealand, Papuasia (based on Lydekker's Line ) and the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and later as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974. [84] [85] Among the last islands in Oceania to be colonised was Niue (1900).
Among the oldest known land arthropods are Trigonotarbids, members of an extinct order of spider-like arachnids. [5]Trigonotarbids share many superficial characteristics with spiders, including a terrestrial lifestyle, respiration through book lungs, and walking on eight legs, [6] with a pair of leg-like pedipalps near the mouth and mouth parts.
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Pages in category "History of Oceania" ... Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands This page was last edited on 16 January 2024, at 21:29 (UTC). ...
Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...
Nihoa is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Tracey Churchill & Robert Raven in 1992. It is named after the island Nihoa, where the type species (N. mahina) is endemic. [2] Male Nihoan trapdoor spiders (N. hawaiiensis) grow to almost 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long, including chelicerae. The females are larger ...