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  2. Tarantula - Wikipedia

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    A tarantula's blood is not true blood, but rather a liquid called hemolymph (or haemolymph). At least four types of hemocytes, or hemolymph cells, are known. The tarantula's heart is a long, slender tube located along the top of the opisthosoma. The heart is neurogenic as opposed to myogenic, so nerve cells instead of muscle cells initiate and ...

  3. Hemocyanin - Wikipedia

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    Hemocyanins are found in the Mollusca and Arthropoda, including cephalopods and crustaceans, and utilized by some land arthropods such as the tarantula Eurypelma californicum, [3] the emperor scorpion, [4] and the centipede Scutigera coleoptrata. Also, larval storage proteins in many insects appear to be derived from hemocyanins.

  4. Spider anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The cephalothorax, also called prosoma, is composed of two primary surfaces: a dorsal carapace and a ventral sternum.Most external appendages on the spider are attached to the cephalothorax, including the eyes, chelicerae and other mouthparts, pedipalps and legs.

  5. Spider - Wikipedia

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    The jumping spider Evarcha culicivora uses the scent of blood from mammals and other vertebrates, which is obtained by capturing blood-filled mosquitoes, to attract the opposite sex. Because they are able to tell the sexes apart, it is assumed the blood scent is mixed with pheromones. [ 35 ]

  6. Hemolymph - Wikipedia

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    Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.

  7. Aphonopelma bicoloratum - Wikipedia

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    Aphonopelma bicoloratum (also known as Mexican blood leg), is a species of tarantula found in Mexico. [1] As its common name aptly states it is found in Mexico, and was first described by Ronny Struchen, D. Brändle and Gunter Schmidt in 1996.

  8. Spider angioma - Wikipedia

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    A spider angioma or spider naevus (plural: spider naevi), also nevus araneus, is a type of telangiectasis [2] (swollen, spider-like blood vessels on the skin) found slightly beneath the skin's surface, often containing a central red spot and deep reddish extensions (see Blood color) which radiate outwards like a spider's web or a spider's legs.

  9. Hematophagy - Wikipedia

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    Cow blood mixed with milk, for example, is a mainstay food of the African Maasai. Many places around the world eat blood sausage. Some societies, such as the Moche, had ritual hematophagy, as well as the Scythians, a nomadic people of Eastern Europe, who drank the blood of the first enemy they killed in battle. Psychiatric cases of patients ...