William Joseph Rainbow (1856–1919), Australian entomologist and arachnologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 51 taxon names authored by William Joseph Rainbow

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1893

• Rainbow, W.J. 1893. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2 7(4): 471-476. BHL. Reference page. 
• Rainbow, W.J. 1893a. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 2. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2 8(1): 16–24. BHL. Reference page. 

1894

• Rainbow, W.J. 1894. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 3. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2 8(2): 287–294. BHL. Reference page. 
• Rainbow, W.J. 1894a. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2 9(1): 153-157. BHL. Reference page. 

1895

• Rainbow, W.J. 1895. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 5. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, sereis 2 10(2): 347-360. BHL. Reference page. 

1896

• Rainbow, W.J. 1896. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 6. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 320–344. BHL. Reference page. 
• Rainbow, W.J. 1896a. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 7. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 628–633. BHL. Reference page. 

1897

• Rainbow, W.J. 1897. The arachnidan fauna of Funafuti. Australian Museum Memoirs 3: 105-124. BHL.Reference page. 
• Rainbow, W.J. 1897a. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 8. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 514-553. BHL. Reference page. 

1898

• Rainbow, W.J. 1898. Contribution to a knowledge of the arachnidan fauna of British New Guinea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 328–356. BHL. Reference page. 
• Rainbow, W.J. 1898a. Description of a new araneiad [sic]. Records of the Australian Museum 3(4): 82–83. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.3.1898.1137 . Reference page. 

1899

• Rainbow, W.J. 1899. Contribution to a knowledge of Papuan Arachnida. Records of the Australian Museum 3(5): 108–118. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.3.1899.1150 . Reference page. 
• Rainbow, W.J. 1899a. Contribution to a knowledge of the araneidan fauna of Santa Cruz. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24: 304-321. BHL. Reference page. 

1902

• Rainbow, W.J. 1902. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 10. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 484–492. BHL. Reference page. 

1914

• Rainbow, W.J. 1914. Studies in the Australian Araneidae. No. 6. The Terretelariae. Records of the Australian Museum 10: 187-270. Reference page. .

1915

• Rainbow, W.J. 1915. Arachnida collected in north-western South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 772-793. Reference page. 

1916

• Rainbow, W.J. 1916. Arachnida from northern Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 33-64, 79-119. Reference page. 

1918

• Rainbow, W.J. & Pulleine, R.H. 1918. Australian trap-door spiders. Records of the Australian Museum 12: 81-169. Reference page. 

1920

• Rainbow, W.J. 1920. Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum 1: 229-272. Reference page. 

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