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Atrax
Genus of spiders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the mythological figure, see Atrax (mythology). For the ancient city of Thessaly, see Atrax (Thessaly).
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.[3][4] As of May 2019[update] it contains only three species: A. robustus, A. sutherlandi, and A. yorkmainorum.[1] Originally placed with the curtain web spiders, it was moved to the Hexathelidae in 1980,[5] then to the Australian funnel-web spiders in 2018.[6]
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Female Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Atracidae |
Genus: | Atrax O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877[1] |
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A. robustus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 | |
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