Nilani Kanesharatnam, Sri Lankan arachnologist

• National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hantana road, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 32 taxon names authored by Nilani Kanesharatnam

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2016

• Benjamin, S.P. & Kanesharatnam, N. 2016. Description of three new species of the tropical Asian jumping spider genus Onomastus Simon, 1900 from high altitude cloud forests of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4205(5): 431–453. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.5.2. Reference page. 
• Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S.P. 2016. Three new generic records and descriptions of four new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. European journal of Taxonomy 228: 1-23. full aticle (PDF). Reference page. 

2018

• Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S.P. 2018. A new genus and three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. European journal of Taxonomy 444: 1-24. full aticle (PDF). Reference page. 

2019

• Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S.P. 2019. Multilocus genetic and morphological phylogenetic analysis reveals a radiation of shiny South Asian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) ZooKeys 839: 1-81. Reference page. 

2020

• Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S.P. 2020. On three new species of jumping spiders of the genera Habrocestum Simon, 1876, Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 and Tamigalesus Żabka, 1988 (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 5-19. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.4.47578 Reference page. 
• Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S.P. 2020a. First record of Synagelides Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka: description of four endemic species from tropical wet forest of the island. Zootaxa 4790(1): 043–056. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.2. . Reference page. 
• Maddison, W.P., Beattie, I., Marathe, K., Ng, P.Y.C., Kaneshaatnam, N., Benjamin, S.P. & Kunte, K. 2020. A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini). ZooKeys, 1004: 27–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.57526 Reference page. 

2021

• Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S.P. 2021. Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the jumping spider genus Colopsus with the description of eight new species from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 54(43-44): 2763-2814. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1869335. . Reference page.