{"id":214250,"date":"2021-03-30T00:54:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cute-new-spider-species-named-nemo-after-animated-fish\/"},"modified":"2021-03-30T00:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T21:54:36","slug":"cute-new-spider-species-named-nemo-after-animated-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cute-new-spider-species-named-nemo-after-animated-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Cute’ new spider species named ‘Nemo’ after animated fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Cute’ new spider species named ‘Nemo’ after animated fish<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Maratus nemo, a newly discovered peacock spider named after the animated clownfish Nemo, is anything but an ordinary arachnid. <\/p>\n

Native only to the Australian continent, the Maratus nemo is no bigger than the size of a long grain of rice \u2014 which is a shame considering it\u2019s one of the most vibrantly colored spider species on Earth. <\/p>\n

Like the name \u201cpeacock\u201d suggests, they\u2019re also known for putting on a show in hopes of finding a mate.<\/p>\n

In a new paper published in Evolutionary Systematics on Thursday<\/a>, researcher Joseph Schubert described the newest member of the peacock spider group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a really vibrant orange face with white strip<\/a>es on it, which kind of looks like a clownfish, so I thought Nemo would be a really suitable name for it,\u201d said Schubert, an arachnologist and taxonomist for Museums Victoria, in an article published on their website<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The Maratus nemo was discovered on a nature reserve in Victoria, Australia.<\/figcaption>
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The aptly named Nemo wasn\u2019t easy to find either. If not for social media<\/a>, Schubert may not have known the spider existed. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a plain back but his orangey-red face is what stood out and I hadn\u2019t seen anything like it before, so I knew it had to be a new one,\u201d said Sheryl Holliday, an ecological field officer for the Nature Glenelg land trust in Victoria, of the male Maratus nemo. <\/p>\n

The female counterpart, as is common across the animal kingdom, is more subdued with muted orange and gray coloring. <\/p>\n

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The female Maratus nemo bears more muted coloring.<\/figcaption>
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In fact, many within the Maratus genus have emerged only during that past decade, thanks to advanced mobile technologies \u2014 high-resolution smart phone cameras, for example \u2014 and a burgeoning community of citizen scientists online, eager to share unique specimens they\u2019ve spotted in the field. <\/p>\n

Ten years ago, there were just 15 different identified species of peacock spider; now, there are at least 92.<\/p>\n

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The orange-and-white Maratus nemo was named for the animated clownfish Nemo of Pixar\u2019s \u201cFinding Nemo.\u201d<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Evere<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think peacock spiders have captured the public\u2019s attention just because they\u2019re really, really cute for spiders,\u201d said Schubert. \u201cThey\u2019ve got these massive forward-facing eyes and you can relate to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s eager to discover more peacock spiders, which fall under the jumping spider family Salticidae \u2014 containing over 600 genera<\/a> \u2014 as species loss looms due to habitat destruction, rampant wildfires and pesticides. <\/p>\n

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