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Rayforstia salmoni

species of Arachnida

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ27502892 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rayforstia salmoni is a species of Anapidae that is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was described as Textricella salmoni in 1959 by Ray Forster from male and female specimens. In 2010 it was transferred to Rayforstia. The holotype is stored in Te Papa Museum under registration number AS.000103.

Description

The male is recorded at 1.1mm in length whereas the female is 1.14mm.

Distribution

This species is known from the North Island of New Zealand.

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rayforstia salmoni” as species of Arachnida. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rayforstia, salmoni and species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of Arachnida. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27502892. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rayforstia salmoni” 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.