Nilakantha is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
| Nilakantha Temporal range:
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| Male Nilakantha sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901[1] |
| Type species | |
| Nilakantha cockerelli Peckham & Peckham, 1901[1]
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| Species | |
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 species | |
Species edit
As of November 2015[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted 4 species of Nilakantha:[1]
- Nilakantha cockerelli Peckham & Peckham, 1901 – Hispaniola, Jamaica
- Nilakantha crucifera (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
- Nilakantha inerma (Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
- Nilakantha peckhami Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Gen. Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
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