Nukuhiva is a genus of pisaurid spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

s with a single species that occurs only on the Marquesas Islands

Marquesas Islands

The Marquesas Islands enana and Te Fenua `Enata , both meaning "The Land of Men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. The Marquesas are located at 9° 00S, 139° 30W...

. It has been found on Nuku Hiva

Nuku Hiva

Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island....

 and on Ua Huka

Ua Huka

Ua Huka is one of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is situated in the northern group of the archipelago, approximately . to the east of Nuku Hiva, at .-Name:...

, a smaller island about 25 km to the east.

Name

The genus is named after the island Nuku Hiva

Nuku Hiva

Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It was formerly also known as Île Marchand and Madison Island....

 on the Marquesas Islands. The describer, Lucien Berland, named several genera after islands in the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

 during the 1930s. Other names derived from islands in the Marquesas are Uapou

Uapou

Uapou is a genus of linyphiid spiders with one species that occurs only Ua Pou, one of the Marquesas Islands.H.W. Levi transferred it to the family Symphytognathidae in 1972, but this was rejected by Brignoli in 1980.-Name:...

and Uahuka

Uahuka

Uahuka is a genus of linyphiid spiders with two species that occur only on the Marquesas Islands.H.W. Levi transferred it to the family Symphytognathidae in 1972, but this was rejected by Brignoli in 1980....

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External links

• Diagnostic drawings of both species