- The Mygalomorphae, or
mygalomorphs, are an
infraorder of spiders, and
comprise one of
three major groups of
living spiders with over 3,000 species, found...
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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...
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dwarf tarantulas.
These spiders are
related to
tarantulas (all
being mygalomorphs) but fall into
different families from them.
Huntsman spiders of the...
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Macrothelidae is a
family of
mygalomorph spiders,
split off from the
family Hexathelidae in 2018. It
contains three genera, Macrothele,
Vacrothele and...
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Antrodiaetus pacificus is a
species of
mygalomorph spiders native to the
Pacific Northwest. Both male and
female were
first described by
French arachnologist...
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Atypoides riversi,
known as
turret spider, is a
species of
mygalomorph spider in the
family Antrodiaetidae. It is a medium-sized
spider native to Northern...
- (ancestral) for many
groups of
mygalomorphs. It can be
securely placed in Avicularioidea, one of the two
major groupings of
mygalomorph spiders based on the absence...
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Although most
spiders live for at most two years,
tarantulas and
other mygalomorph spiders can live up to 25 years in captivity.
While the
venom of a few...
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Ctenizidae is a
small family of
mygalomorph spiders that
construct burrows with a cork-like
trapdoor made of soil, vegetation, and silk. They may be called...
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Aname atra, the
black wishbone spider, is a
mygalomorph spider of
Southern Australia. It is one of the
wishbone spiders in the
taxonomic family Anamidae...
