The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern Australia, usually found within a 100 km (62 mi)...

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 Hexathelidae...

Funnel-web spider refers to many different species of spider, particularly those that spin a web in the shape of a funnel: spiders in the family Agelenidae...

Newcastle funnel-web spider (Atrax christenseni), also known as Newcastle big boy, is a species of venomous mygalomorph funnel-web spider in the family...

Northern Rivers funnel-web spider or northern funnel-web spider. A member of the genus Hadronyche, the northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider was first described...

Atrax montanus, the Southern Sydney funnel-web spider, is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern Australia, usually found near the...

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...

Ludwig Koch described the southern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider from a female spider collected in Sydney, and erected the genus Hadronyche in 1873. The...

Hadronyche versuta, the Blue Mountains funnel-web spider, is a medically significant mygalomorph spider found in central New South Wales. A member of the...

of highly venomous spiders, including the Sydney funnel-web spider, its relatives in the family Hexathelidae, and the redback spider, whose bites can be...

reaction. The Australian funnel-web spiders (family Atracidae), such as the Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus (a mygalomorph spider, not to be confused...

as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly as funnel-web tarantulas, a name shared with other distantly related families) are a group of spiders in the infraorder...

low-molecular mass neurotoxic polypeptide found in the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus). Delta atracotoxin produces potentially fatal...

members include the notorious Sydney funnel-web spider, and their spinnerets appear adapted for building funnel-shaped webs to catch jumping insects. Araneomorphae...

the Sydney funnel-web spider and the Brazilian wandering spider are both known to have lethal complications. For the Brazilian wandering spider only...

Huntsman spider Mexican fireleg tarantula Mexican red-knee tarantula Mouse spider Queensland whistling tarantula Redback spider Sydney funnel-web spider White-tailed...

and is often confused with the Sydney funnel-web spider, which is one of the most venomous spiders in the world. Sydney brown trapdoors are medium-to-large...

also occur. Other spiders that can cause significant bites include the Australian funnel-web spider and South American wandering spider. Efforts to prevent...

Enamelled spider Poecilopachys australasia, Two-spined spider Family Atracidae Atrax robustus, Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax spp. Funnel-web spiders Hadronyche...

sharp, and the spider's body is well adapted to driving the fangs into flesh. Some spider bites, such as those of the Sydney funnel-web spider, are reported...

of spiders that have been confused with tarantulas are the Australian funnel-web spiders. The best known species of these is the Sydney funnel-web spider...

Victorian funnel-web spider, is a species of spider found in Victoria, Australia. A member of the genus Hadronyche, the Victorian funnel-web spider was first...

Spider taxonomy is the part of taxonomy that is concerned with the science of naming, defining and classifying all spiders, members of the Araneae order...

Atrax yorkmainorum is a venomous species of Australian funnel-web spider belonging to the Atracidae family and is found in forests in the vicinity of...

infensa, the Darling Downs funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider, one of a number of Australian funnel-web spiders found in Queensland and...

educated not to touch spiders. The redback and its relatives in the genus Latrodectus are considered dangerous, alongside funnel-web spiders (Atrax and Hadronyche)...

research in the 1920s. CSL has developed antivenoms for the redback spider, funnel-web spiders and all deadly Australian snakes. In the USA, the H.K. Mulford...

This group of spiders comprises mostly heavy-bodied, stout-legged spiders including tarantulas, Australian funnel-web spiders, mouse spiders, and various...

opening sodium channels. Delta atracotoxin from the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider produces potentially fatal neurotoxic symptoms in primates by slowing...

fifty times less responsive than human tissue to the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider[citation needed]. The square–cube law also complicates the scaling...