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Ranil P. Nanayakkara
Ranil P. Nanayakkara
Papers
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2012
2015
2019
A new species of tiger spider, genus Poecilotheria, from northern Sri Lanka
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 28(1): 6-15
2012
Discovery of the critically endangered tarantula species of the genus Poecilotheria (Araneae: Theraphosidae), Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica, from Sri Lanka
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 1-6
2015
Another from Sri Lanka, after 126 years; Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansicklei sp. nov. (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from a fragmented forest patch in the wet zone of Sri Lanka
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(2): 25-36
2019
A new species of Tiger spider in the genus Poecilotheria Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Belihuloya, Sri Lanka
Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(3, 2019)
2019
Species Described
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2012
2019
Poecilotheria rajaei
Nanayakkara, Kirk, Dayananda, Ganehiarachchi, Vishvanath & Kusuminda, 2012
Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansickleae
Nanayakkara, Sumanapala & Kirk, 2019
Poecilotheria srilankensis
Nanayakkara, Ganehiarachi, Kusuminda, Vishvanath, Karunaratne & Kirk, 2019