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The name "tarantula" is commonly given to spiders in this family. It is a misnomer - it was originally given to a smaller wolf spider from Taranto, Italy, where, in the Middle Ages, people danced themselves into a trance - called the tarantella - in an attempt to purge the effects of the wolf spider's bite. [citation needed]
It is a burrowing species, often sold by pet stores under the name Hysterocrates gigas. Although these tarantulas both come from Cameroon, Hysterocrates crassipes does not turn red before molting , and has an enlarged tibia on leg pair IV into adulthood, whereas H. gigas does not keep these "enlarged" (thick) tibia.
Hippotragus gigas, an extinct species of antelope; Holmskioldia gigas, a flowering plant species found in Kenya and Tanzania; Hyaenodon gigas, an extinct mammal species; Hydrodamalis gigas, an extinct sirenian; Hydrodynastes gigas, a rear-fanged venomous colubrid species found in South America; Hysterocrates gigas, a tarantula native to Cameroon
Hysterocrates gigas Pocock, 1897 – Cameroon; Hysterocrates greeffi (Karsch, 1884) – Cameroon; Hysterocrates greshoffi (Simon, 1891) – Congo; Hysterocrates hercules Pocock, 1900 – Nigeria; Hysterocrates laticeps Pocock, 1897 – Cameroon; Hysterocrates maximus Strand, 1906 – Cameroon; Hysterocrates ochraceus Strand, 1907 – Cameroon ...
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H. gigas, the largest Hyaenodon species, was much larger, being 378 kg (833 lb) and around 10 ft (3 m). [20] H. crucians from the early Oligocene of North America is estimated to only 10 to 25 kg (22 to 55 lb). H. microdon and H. mustelinus from the late Eocene of North America were even smaller and weighed probably about 5 kg (11 lb). [22]
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To quote Platnick's World Spider Catalog v. 12.5, [1] "N.B.: transferred here from the Barychelidae by Raven, 1985a: 112; Brachyonopus is an unjustified emendation; Raven's transfer was not accepted by Charpentier, 1993: 5 or Schmidt, 2002a: 12 and 2008: 3, who nevertheless identified no close relatives of the genus among the known barychelids ...