Robert John Raven

Robert John Raven, Australian arachnologist.

Curator of Chelicerates at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia.

Taxon names authored

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300 taxon names authored by Robert John Raven

PublicationsEdit

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1976Edit

Raven, R.J., A new spider of the genus Hexathele Ausserer (Dipluridae: Mygalomorphae) from Australia. Proc. R. Soc. Qld 87: 53–61.

1978Edit

Raven, R.J., 1978: Systematics of the spider subfamily Hexathelinae (Dipluridae: Mygalomorphae: Arachnida). Australian journal of zoology (Suppl.) 65: 1–75.
Raven, R.J. & N. I. Platnick. 1978: A new genus of the spider family Dipluridae from Chile (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Journal of arachnology, 6: 73–77.

1979Edit

Raven, R.J. 1979. Systematics of the mygalomorph spider genus Masteria (Masteriinae: Dipluridae: Arachnida). Australian journal of zoology 27: 623–636. Reference page.

1980Edit

Davies, V. T. & R. J. Raven. 1980: Megadolomedes nov. gen. (Araneae: Pisauridae) with a description of the male of the type-species, Dolomedes australianus Koch 1865. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 20: 135–141.
Raven, R.J., (1980a). The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata). Journal of arachnology, 8: 251–266.
Raven, R.J., (1980b). The Australian mygalomorph spider genus Ixamatus Simon (Dipluridae: Diplurinae) and its affinities. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 5: 43–49.

1981Edit

Raven, R.J. 1981: Three new mygalomorph spiders (Dipluridae, Masteriinae) from Colombia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 57-63. Reference page.
Raven, R.J., (1981a). The mygalomorph spider genera Phyxioschaema Simon and Stenygrocercus Simon (Dipluridae: Ischnothelinae). Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 5: 225–231.
Raven, R.J. 1981b. A review of the Australian genera of the mygalomorph spider subfamily Diplurinae (Dipluridae: Chelicerata). Australian journal of zoology 29: 321–363. Reference page.
Raven, R.J. & Platnick, NI. 1981: A revision of the American spiders of the family Microstigmatidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum Novitates 2707: 1-20. Reference page.

1982Edit

Raven, R.J., (1982a). On the mygalomorph spider genus Xamiatus Raven (Diplurinae: Dipluridae) with the description of a new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 20: 473–478.
Raven, R.J., (1982b). Systematics of the Australian mygalomorph spider genus Ixamatus Simon (Diplurinae: Dipluridae: Chelicerata). Australian journal of zoology, 30: 1035–1067.

1983Edit

Raven, R.J., (1983a). Contributions to the knowledge of the mountain fauna of Malawi (Mission R. Jocqué). III. Dipluridae. Revue Zool. afr. 97: 345–352.
Raven, R.J., (1983b). Notes on some mygalomorph spiders in the Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Dipluridae, Hexathelidae, Ctenizidae: Araneae). Revue Zool. afr. 97: 549–562.

1984Edit

Raven R.J., 1984a. Systematics of the Australian curtain-web spiders (Ischnotheline: Dipluridae: Chelicerata). Australian journal of zoology, (suppl. Ser.) 93: 1–102.
Raven, R.J. 1984b. A new diplurid genus from eastern Australia and a related Aname species (Diplurinae: Dipluridae: Araneae). Australian Journal of Zoology (suppl. Ser.) 96: 1-51. Reference page.
Raven, R.J., (1984c). A revision of the Aname maculata species group (Dipluridae, Araneae) with notes on biogeography. Journal of arachnology, 12: 177–193.
Raven, R.J., (1984d). Systematics and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Migidae (Araneae) in Australia. Australian journal of zoology, 32: 379–390.

1985Edit

Raven, R.J. 1985. A revision of the Aname pallida species-group in northern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 377-409. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9850377. Reference page.
Raven, R.J., 1985a: The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 182: 1–180. PDF.
Raven, R.J., (1985c). A new and interesting species of Cethegus Thorell (Ischnothelinae, Dipluridae) from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum, 19: 15–17.
Raven, R.J., (1985d). Two new species of Ixamatus Simon from eastern Australia (Nemesiidae, Mygalomorphae, Araneae). Journal of arachnology, 13: 285–290.

1986Edit

Raven, R.J., 1986: A revision of the spider genus Sason Simon (Sasoninae, Barychelidae, Mygalomorphae) and its historical biogeography. Journal of arachnology, 14: 47–70.

1987Edit

Raven, R.J. 1987. A new mygalomorph spider genus from Mexico (Nemesiinae, Nemesiidae, Arachnida). Journal of arachnology 14: 357–362. Reference page.

1988Edit

Raven, R.J. 1988: A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Idioctis (Araneae, Barychelidae). American Museum Novitates 2929: 1-14. full article (PDF). Reference page.

1989Edit

Raven, R.J. & T. B. Churchill. 1989: A new species of Migas (Araneae, Migidae), with notes on Heteromigas in Tasmania. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 8: 5–8.
Raven, R.J. & Schwendinger, P.J. 1989. On a new Phyxioschema (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Thailand and its biology. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8: 55–60. Reference page.

1990Edit

Paz S., N. & R. J. Raven. 1990: A new species of Linothele from Colombia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae). Journal of arachnology, 18: 79–86.
Raven, R.J., 1990: A revision of the Australian spider genus Trittame Koch (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) and a new related genus. Invertebr. Taxon. 4: 21–54.

1991Edit

Raven R.J., 1991. A revision of the mygalomorph spider family Dipluridae in New Caledonia (Araneae). In Chazeau, J. & S. Tillier (eds.), Zoologia Neocaledonica, Vol. 2. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. (A) 149: 87–117.
Raven R.J. & Churchill T.B., 1991. A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Encyocrypta Simon in New Caledonia (Araneae Barychelidae). In Chazeau, J. & S. Tillier (eds.), Zoologia Neocaledonica, Vol. 2. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. (A) 149: 31–86.

1992Edit

Churchill, T.B. & Raven, R.J. 1992: Systematics of the intertidal trapdoor spider genus Idioctis (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) in the western Pacific with a new genus from the northeast. Memoirs of The Queensland Museum, 32: 9–30.full article (pdf BHL). Reference page.

1993Edit

Raven, R.J., 1993: The biodiversity of Australian mygalomorph spiders. I. Two new species of Namirea (Araneae: Dipluridae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 34: 81–88.

1994Edit

Raven, R.J. 1994: Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the Western Pacific. Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 35: 291-706. full article (pdf BHL). Reference page.

1995Edit

Raven, R.J. & Schwendinger, P.J. 1995. Three new mygalomorph spider genera from Thailand and China (Araneae). Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 38: 623–641. BHL Reference page.

1999Edit

Raven, R.J. 1999: Review of the mygalomorph genus Melloina Brignoli (Paratropididae: Araneae). Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 43: 819-825. full article (pdf BHL). Reference page.

2000Edit

Raven, R.J. 2000: Taxonomica Araneae 1: Barychelidae, Theraphosidae, Nemesiidae and Dipluridae (Araneae). Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 45: 569-575. full article (pdf BHL). Reference page.
Raven, R.J. 2000a: A new species of funnel-web spider (Hadronyche: Hexathelidae: Mygalomorphae) from north Queensland. Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 46: 225-230. full article (pdf BHL). Reference page.
Raven, R.J. & B. C. Baehr. 2000: Revised status of the genus Hetaerica Rainbow (Araneae: Zodariidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 45: 577–583.

2001Edit

Raven, R.J., K. Stumkat & M. R. Gray. 2001: Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: I. Amauropelma gen. nov. (Araneomorphae: Ctenidae). Rec. West. Aust. Mus. Suppl. 64: 187–227.

2002Edit

Raven, R.J., Stumkat, K.S. 2002: Pteroneta Deeleman-Reinhold and a remarkable sympatric Clubiona (Clubionidae: Araneomorphae: Arachnida) in northern Australia. Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 48: 199-206.full article (pdf BHL). Reference page.

2003Edit

Raven, R.J. & K. Stumkat. 2003: Problem solving in the spider families Miturgidae, Ctenidae and Psechridae (Araneae) in Australia and New Zealand. Journal of arachnology, 31: 105–121.

2005Edit

Raven, R.J. 2005: A new tarantula species from northern Australia (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 1004: 15–28. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page.
Raven, R.J., Stumkat, K.S. 2005. Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: II. Zoropsidae (Lycosoidea: Araneae). Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 50(2): 347-423.Full article (PDF). Reference page.

2006Edit

Raven, R.J. & Wishart, G. 2006. The trapdoor spider Arbanitis L. Koch (Idiopidae: Mygalomorphae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 51: 531-557. Reference page. .

2008Edit

Raven, R.J., (2008a). A revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Monodontium Kulczynski (Barychelidae: Araneae). Raffles Bull. Zool. 56: 29–44.
Raven, R.J., (2008b). Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: III. Tuxoctenus gen. nov. (Araneomorphae: Zoridae). Rec. West. Aust. Mus. 24: 351–361.

2009Edit

Baehr, B. C. & R. J. Raven. 2009: Revision of the Australian spider genus Habronestes L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Zodariidae). Species of Tasmania. Contrib. nat. Hist. 12: 127–151.
Raven, R.J., 2009: Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: IV. The spider subfamily Diaprograptinae subfam. nov. (Araneomorphae: Miturgidae). Zootaxa, 2035: 1–40.
Siliwal, M., Molur, S. & Raven, R.J. 2009. Two new species of the genus Diplothele (Araneae, Barychelidae) from Orissa, India with notes on D. walshi. Journal of Arachnology 37: 178-187. DOI: 10.1636/a08-64.1. Reference page.
Siliwal, M., Nair, M.V., Molur, S. & Raven, R.J. 2009. First record of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele (Araneae, Ctenizidae) from India, with a description of two new species. Journal of Arachnology 37: 1-9. DOI: 10.1636/a07-86.1. Reference page.

2010Edit

Javed, S. M. M., R. J. Raven, F. Tampal & K. T. Rao. 2010: Occurrence and redescription of Sipalolasma arthrapophysis (Gravely, 1915) (Araneae: Barychelidae: Barychelinae) from India. J. Threatened Taxa 2: 867–875.
Siliwal, M. & R. J. Raven. 2010: Taxonomic change of two species in the genus Haploclastus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 46: 71–75

2011Edit

Baehr, B. C., R. J. Raven & W. Hebron. 2011: Orsolobidae of the IBISCA-Queensland project at Lamington National Park. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature, 55: 439–449.

2012Edit

Ott, M. J. Ramírez, R. J. Raven, C. A. Rheims, G. R. S. Ruiz, A. J. Santos, A. Saucedo, P. Sierwald, T. Szüts, D. Ubick & X.-P. Wang. (Platnick et al., 2012a). 2012: Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera. American Museum novitates, 3736: 1–52.
Raven, R.J. 2012: Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders. V. A new lycosoid genus from eastern Australia (Araneae: Tengellidae). Zootaxa 3305: 28–52. Preview PDF Reference page.
Siliwal, Gupta & Raven, R.J. 2012. A new genus of the family Theraphosidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) with description of three new species from the western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 4: 3233-3254. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

2015Edit

Raven, R.J. 2015: A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 3958(1): 1–258. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1. Preview (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-693-8 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-694-5 (Online edition) Reference page.
Siliwal, M., Kananbala, A., Bhubaneshwari, M & Raven, R.J. 2015. Natural history and two new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell 1878 (Araneae: Ctenizidae) from India. Journal of Arachnology 43(1): 34-39. DOI: 10.1636/K14-30.1 . Reference page.
Siliwal, M., Molur, S. & Raven, R.J. 2015. New genus with two new species of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 43-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2015.01.005 . Reference page.

2017Edit

Baehr, B.C., Harms, D., Dupérré, N. & Raven, R.J. 2017. The Australian Lynx Spiders (Araneae, Oxyopidae, Oxyopes) of the Godeffroy Collection, including the description of a new species. Evolutionary Systematics 1: 11–37. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.1.14652 Reference page.
Baehr, B.C., Raven, R.J. & Harms, D. 2017. “High Tide or Low Tide”: Desis bobmarleyi sp. n., a new spider from coral reefs in Australia’s Sunshine State and its relative from Sāmoa (Araneae, Desidae, Desis). Evolutionary Systematics 1: 111–120. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.1.15735 Reference page.
Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S.E., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. DOI: 10.1071/IS16065. Reference page.

2018Edit

Harvey, M.S., Hillyer, M.J., Main, B.Y., Moulds, T.A., Raven, R.J., Rix, M.G., Vink, C.J. & Huey, J.A. 2018. Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111. Reference page.
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. [nonfunctional] . Online. Reference page.
Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone. The Journal of Arachnology 46(2): 249-344. DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-17-057.1. . Reference page.
Rix, M.G., Main, B.Y., Raven, R.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot. The Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 133-154 & Appendix "Atlas of male morphology spiny trapdoor spiders (genus Eucanippe)". DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-17-030.1. . Reference page.
Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the giant spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Gaius Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini): documenting an iconic lineage of the Western Australian inland arid zone. The Journal of Arachnology 46(3): 438-472. DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-17-079.1. . Reference page.

2019Edit

Wilson, J.D., Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Schmidt, D.J. & Hughes, J.M. 2019. Systematics of the palisade trapdoor spiders (Euoplos) of south-eastern Queensland (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): four new species distinguished by their burrow entrance architecture. Invertebrate Systematics 33(2): 253-276. DOI: 10.1071/IS18014. Reference page.

2020Edit

Wilson, J.D., Raven, R.J., Schmidt, D.J., Hughes, J.M. & Rix, M.G. 2020. Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia′s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini). Cladistics 36: 543–568. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12415. . Reference page.

2021Edit

Wilson, J.D., Rix, M.G., Schmidt, D.J., Hughes, J.M. & Raven, R.J. 2021. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern Australian mesic zone. Journal of Arachnology 49: 28–90. DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-18-100. . Reference page.

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