Canama is a 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...

 genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its five described species occur from Borneo

Borneo

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 to Queensland

Queensland

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This genus is very similar to Bathippus

Bathippus

Bathippus is a genus of jumping spiders.This genus is very similar to the genus Canama.Members of this genus are distributed throughout the Australasian region.-Description:...

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Description

Females are up to 8 mm long, males up to 10 mm. The longish abdomen is clothed in white hairs with red streaks and bands. Males have very large, long chelicerae which diverge and project forwards. The long, spiny legs are dark with pale tarsi and metatarsi.

Species

• Canama dorcas (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas
• Canama forceps (Doleschall, 1859) — New Guinea
  New Guinea
  New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
  
  
• Canama hinnulea (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
• Canama inquirenda Strand
  Embrik Strand
  Embrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....
  
  , 1911 — Kei Islands
• Canama lacerans (Thorell, 1881) — Malaysia
• Canama rutila Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo