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Dolomedes elegans

species of arachnid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ2014883 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dolomedes elegans is a species of spider in the family Dolomedidae, found in French Guiana.

Another species described two years after the original, initially named Dolomedes elegans L. Koch, 1876, and later named Nilus kochi is now considered as Mangromedes kochi, and is found in Queensland, Australia.

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External links

"Dolomedes elegans". The Encyclopedia of Life.

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The public source identifies “Dolomedes elegans” as species of arachnid. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dolomedes, elegans and species.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1876—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dolomedes, elegans and species providing the first useful test.
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Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2014883. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1876.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dolomedes elegans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.