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Female Sydney funnel-web spider in a warning posture. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was the first to describe the Sydney funnel-web spider, from a female specimen housed in the British Museum in 1877. Establishing the genus Atrax, he named it Atrax robustus. [4] The species name is derived from the Latin robustus, "strong/sturdy/mature". [5]
Venom from the male Sydney funnel-web spider (A. robustus) is used in producing the antivenom, but it appears to be effective against the venom of all species of atracids. [29] Australian funnel-web spider antivenom has also been shown, in vitro, to reverse the effects of eastern mouse spider (Missulena bradleyi) venom. [30]
Atrax montanus, the Southern Sydney funnel-web spider, is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern Australia, usually found near the Blue Mountains from the Central Coast south to the Georges River, extending as far west as Baulkham Hills near the southern end of its distribution. [1]
Male Atrax robustus spiders (Sydney funnel-web spiders) are responsible for over 10 deaths a year. That said, there are plenty of other harmless spiders in many other parts of the world who create ...
The ‘true’ Sydney funnel-web, Atrax robustus, centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast while the Southern Sydney funnel-web is a resurrected species name from 1914,” Dr ...
The spider Hemsworth was handed in at one of the park’s drop-off locations in Newcastle, a coastal city around 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Sydney. Park staff first thought it was a female ...
[15] [16] The Sydney funnel web spider Atrax robustus is the most common species of Atrax involved in human death from spider bites. [15] According to literature, only 10-15% of funnel web spider bites are venomous, however the toxicity of funnel web spider venom is high and chance of fatality is major. [15]
Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy ...