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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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Sea spiders live in many different oceanic regions of the world, from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific coast of the United States, to the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea, to the north and south poles. They are most common in shallow waters, but can be found as deep as 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), and live in both marine and ...
As of June 2023 it contains forty-two species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific Islands: [1] Plexippus aper Thorell, 1881 – New Guinea; Plexippus auberti Lessert, 1925 – Kenya, Tanzania; Plexippus baro Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
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 ...
Pholcus ancoralis is a species of spider of the genus Pholcus native to various island groups in the Pacific Ocean including the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, Hawaii, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, the Samoas, Marquesas and Cook Islands.