| Rarahu | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Agoriinae |
| Tribe: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Rarahu Berland, 1929 |
| Species: | R. nitida |
| Binomial name | |
| Rarahu nitida Berland, 1929 |
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| Diversity | |
| 1 species | |
Rarahu is a genus of spiders in the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only described species, Rarahu nitida, is endemic to Samoa.
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Name [link]
Berland probably adapted the genus name Rarahu from Pierre Loti's book of the same name, which was published in 1880. Loti himself either used the rare Tahitian word "rarahu", meaning (amongst other things) "to eat tapu things", or changed the name of the volcano "Raraku".[1]
The species name is from Latin nitida "shining", "handsome", or "neat" (a false cognate).
Footnotes [link]
- ^ Mabbott 1946
References [link]
- Mabbott, T.O. (1946): The Origin of Pierre Loti's Name "Rarahu". Modern Language Notes 61(4): 288.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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1148 Rarahu
1148 Rarahu is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 33 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 6 hours. It was discovered by Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch on July 5, 1929. On July 28, it was independently discovered by Cyril V. Jackson and H.E. Wood in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rarahu is the Tahitian name for a girl, taken from the novel Le mariage de Loti (Loti's Marriage) by Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a.k.a. Pierre Loti.The asteroid's provisional name was 1929 NA.
