''Bowie'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
Ctenidae
Wandering spiders (''Ctenidae'') are a family of spiders that includes the Brazilian wandering spiders. These spiders have a distinctive longitudinal groove on the top-rear of their oval carapace similar to those of the Amaurobiidae. They are h ...
that was described by
Peter Jäger in 2022.
The genus was named after the English singer-songwriter and actor
David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer, songwriter and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, pa ...
and currently encompasses 107 species, 55 of which were named after elements from David Bowie's musical catalogue.
Species
, the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted about 120 species that occur from the
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya ( ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of h ...
to
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
and northern
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
:
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Bowie abdulmajid''
Jäger, 2022 –
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...
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Bowie afterall''
Jäger, 2022 –
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
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Bowie aladdinsane''
Jäger, 2022 –
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
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Bowie andamanensis''
( Graveley, 1931) – India (
Andaman Is.)
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Bowie angigitanus''
( Roewer, 1938) – Papua New Guinea
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Bowie angularis''
(Roewer, 1938) –
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
(
Aru Is.)
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Bowie argentipes''
(van Hasselt, 1893) –
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
(Peninsula), Singapore, Indonesia (
Sumatra
Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...
)
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Bowie artdecade''
Jäger, 2022 –
Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...
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Bowie aruanus''
(Strand
Strand or The Strand may refer to:
Topography
*The flat area of land bordering a body of water, a:
** Beach
** Shoreline
* Strand swamp, a type of swamp habitat in Florida
Places Africa
* Strand, Western Cape, a seaside town in South Africa
* ...
, 1911) – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
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Bowie ashestoashes''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (
Borneo
Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...
)
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Bowie banna''
(Yao & Li, 2022) –
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
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Bowie bantaengi''
(Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (
Sulawesi
Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...
)
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Bowie bayeri''
(Jäger, 2012) –
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...
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Bowie bemywife''
Jäger, 2022 –
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...
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Bowie beruang''
Omelko & Fomichev, 2023 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie bicostatus''
( Thorell, 1890) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie bigbrother''
Jäger, 2022 –
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
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Bowie binturong''
Omelko & Fomichev, 2023 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie blackout''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie blackstar''
Jäger, 2022 – Papua New Guinea
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Bowie bluejean''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie bomdilaensis''
( Tikader & Malhotra, 1981) – India
*''
Bowie borneo''
Li & Yao, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie bowonglangi''
(Merian, 1911) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Bowie candidate''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie catopuma''
Omelko & Fomichev, 2024 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie catpeople''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie celebensis''
( Pocock, 1897) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Bowie ceylonensis''
( F. O. P-Cambridge, 1897) – Sri Lanka
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Bowie chinagirl''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie cladarus''
(Jäger, 2012) –
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...
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Bowie cochinensis''
(Gravely, 1931) – India
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Bowie corniger''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898) –
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
(
introduced?)
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Bowie criminalworld''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie crystaljapan''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie dhole''
Omelko & Fomichev, 2023 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie diamonddogs''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie dodo''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie engkilili''
Li & Yao, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie fame''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie fascination''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie fashion''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie floweri''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie fungifer''
(Thorell, 1890) – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie giang''
Logunov, 2024 – Vietnam
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Bowie haiphong''
Yao & Li, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie heroes''
Jäger, 2022 – India
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Bowie himalayensis''
(Gravely, 1931) – India
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Bowie holthoffi''
(Jäger, 2012) – Laos
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Bowie hosei''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Borneo (Malaysia,
Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...
)
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Bowie hunkydory''
Jäger, 2022 –
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
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Bowie indicus''
(Gravely, 1931) – India
*''
Bowie javanus''
(Pocock, 1897) – Indonesia (Sumatra,
Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...
,
Bali
Bali (English:; Balinese language, Balinese: ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller o ...
)
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Bowie jeangenie''
Jäger, 2022 – India
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Bowie joethelion''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie kapuri''
(Tikader, 1973) – India (Andaman Is.)
*''
Bowie kochi''
( Simon, 1897) – Indonesia (
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
)
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Bowie ladystardust''
Jäger, 2022 – Nepal
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Bowie lazarus''
Jäger, 2022 – Papua New Guinea
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Bowie letsdance''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (Java)
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Bowie lishuqiang''
(Jäger, 2012) – China
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Bowie lodger''
Jäger, 2022 –
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
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Bowie low''
Jäger, 2022 – Thailand
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Bowie magicdance''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
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Bowie majortom''
Jäger, 2022 – Nepal
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Bowie martensi''
(Jäger, 2012) – Nepal
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Bowie meghalayaensis''
(Tikader, 1976) – India
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Bowie mengla''
Yao & Li, 2022 – China
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Bowie modernlove''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie monaghani''
(Jäger, 2013) – Laos
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Bowie mossgarden''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie musang''
Omelko & Fomichev, 2024 – Philippines (Mindanao)
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Bowie narashinhai''
(Patel & Reddy, 1988) – India
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Bowie natmataung''
(Jäger & Minn, 2015) – Myanmar
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Bowie neukoeln''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Peninsula)
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Bowie ninhbinh''
Li & Yao, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie palembangensis''
(Strand, 1906) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie philippinensis''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Philippines
*''
Bowie pingu''
(Jäger & Minn, 2015) – Myanmar
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Bowie pulvinatus''
(Thorell, 1890) – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie ramosus''
(Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
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Bowie rebelrebel''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie redsails''
Jäger, 2022 – Philippines
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Bowie ricochet''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (Borneo)
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Bowie right''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
*''
Bowie robustus''
(Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China
*''
Bowie rotundus''
Wang, Irfan, F. Zhang & Z. S. Zhang, 2024 – China
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Bowie rufisternis''
(Pocock, 1898) – Papua New Guinea (
New Britain
New Britain () is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi Island, Umboi the Dampie ...
)
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Bowie sabah''
Li & Yao, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie saci''
(Ono, 2010) – Vietnam
*''
Bowie sagittatus''
(Giltay, 1935) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
*''
Bowie sarawakensis''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Borneo (Malaysia, Brunei)
*''
Bowie scarymonsters''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie shakeit''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie sikkimensis''
(Gravely, 1931) – India
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Bowie simplex''
(Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
*''
Bowie stationtostation''
Jäger, 2022 – Myanmar
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Bowie stay''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie subterraneans''
Jäger, 2022 – Thailand
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Bowie tangalunga''
Omelko & Fomichev, 2024 – Philippines (Mindanao)
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Bowie teenagewildlife''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
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Bowie thenextday''
Jäger, 2022 – Indonesia (New Guinea)
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Bowie theodorianum''
(Jäger, 2012) – Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
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Bowie thiesi''
Jäger, 2022 – Papua New Guinea
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Bowie thorelli''
(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) – Sri Lanka
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Bowie tonight''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie underground''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie valvularis''
(van Hasselt, 1882) – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)
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Bowie vinhphuc''
Li & Yao, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie warszawa''
Jäger, 2022 – Thailand
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Bowie win''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie withinyou''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie withoutyou''
Jäger, 2022 – Malaysia (Borneo)
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Bowie yaeyamensis''
(Yoshida, 1998) –
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
(
Ryukyu Is.),
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
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Bowie yassassin''
Jäger, 2022 – Taiwan
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Bowie youngamericans''
Jäger, 2022 – Vietnam
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Bowie yulin''
(Yao & Li, 2022) – China
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Bowie zhengi''
Yao & Li, 2022 – China
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Bowie ziggystardust''
Jäger, 2022 – Nepal
See also
*
Giant Laotian harvestman
*
List of organisms named after famous people (born 1900–1949)
References
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Ctenidae genera
Ctenidae