The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern Australia, usually found within a 100 km (62 mi)...
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Atracidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, commonly known as Australian funnel-web spiders or atracids. It has been included as a subfamily of the Hexathelidae...
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Funnel-web spider refers to many different species of spider, particularly those that spin a web in the shape of a funnel: spiders in the family Agelenidae...
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reaction. The Australian funnel-web spiders (family Atracidae), such as the Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus (a mygalomorph spider not to be confused...
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Hadronyche formidabilis (redirect from Northern funnel-web spider)
Northern Rivers funnel-web spider or northern funnel-web spider. A member of the genus Hadronyche, the northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider was first described...
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Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly with other distantly related ones as funnel-web tarantulas) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae...
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Hadronyche cerberea (category Spiders of Australia)
Ludwig Koch described the southern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider from a female spider collected in Sydney, and erected the genus Hadronyche in 1873. The...
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Hadronyche versuta (category Spiders of Australia)
funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider found in central New South Wales. A member of the genus Hadronyche, the Blue Mountains funnel-web...
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low-molecular-weight neurotoxic polypeptide found in the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus). Delta atracotoxin produces potentially fatal...
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of highly venomous spiders, including the Sydney funnel-web spider, its relatives in the family Hexathelidae, and the redback spider, whose bites can be...
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Atrax (category Spiders of Australia)
Atrax is a genus of venomous Australian funnel web spiders that was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1877 from the type species Atrax robustus...
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and is often confused with the Sydney funnel-web spider, which is one of the most venomous spiders in the world. Sydney brown trapdoors are medium-to-large...
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Chelicerae (redirect from Fang (spider))
sharp, and the spider's body is well adapted to driving the fangs into flesh. Some spider bites, such as those of the Sydney funnel-web spider, are reported...
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members include the notorious Sydney funnel-web spider, and their spinnerets appear adapted for building funnel-shaped webs to catch jumping insects. Araneomorphae...
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Huntsman spider Mexican fireleg tarantula Mexican red-knee tarantula Mouse spider Queensland whistling tarantula Redback spider Sydney funnel-web spider White-tailed...
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also occur. Other spiders that can cause significant bites include the Australian funnel-web spider and South American wandering spider. Efforts to prevent...
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Tarantula (redirect from Tarantula spider)
of spiders that have been confused with tarantulas are the Australian funnel-web spiders. The best known species of these is the Sydney funnel-web spider...
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Enamelled spider Poecilopachys australasia, Two-spined spider Family Atracidae Atrax robustus, Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax spp. Funnel-web spiders Hadronyche...
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Atrax yorkmainorum (category Spiders described in 2010)
Atrax yorkmainorum is a venomous species of Australian funnel-web spider belonging to the Atracidae family and is found in forests in the vicinity of...
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Hadronyche infensa (category Spiders of Australia)
infensa, the Darling Downs funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider, one of a number of Australian funnel-web spiders found in Queensland and...
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This group of spiders comprises mostly heavy-bodied, stout-legged spiders including tarantulas, Australian funnel-web spiders, mouse spiders, and various...
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the Sydney funnel-web spider and the Brazilian wandering spider are both known to have lethal complications. For the Brazilian wandering spider only...
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Hadronyche modesta (category Spiders of Australia)
Victorian funnel-web spider, is a species of spider found in Victoria, Australia. A member of the genus Hadronyche, the Victorian funnel-web spider was first...
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educated not to touch spiders. The redback and its relatives in the genus Latrodectus are considered dangerous, alongside funnel-web spiders (Atrax and Hadronyche)...
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opening sodium channels. Delta atracotoxin from the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider produces potentially fatal neurotoxic symptoms in primates by slowing...
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Antivenom (category Chemicals that do not have a ChemSpider ID assigned)
research in the 1920s. CSL has developed antivenoms for the redback spider, funnel-web spiders and all deadly Australian snakes. In the USA, the H.K. Mulford...
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(1984). "A comparative study of properties and toxic constituents of funnel web spider (Atrax) venoms". Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. C, Comparative...
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robustus, the Sydney funnel-web spider, a notoriously dangerous funnel-web spider species found within a 100 km (62 mi) radius of Sydney, New South Wales...
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Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens...
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Redback spiders Pill bug Plague soldier beetle Punctate flower chafer Redback spider Skull spider Sydney funnel-web spider Sydney huntsman spider Spider wasp...
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