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Teranodes
Sign in to saveTeranodes is a genus of Australian funnel-web spiders that was first described by Robert John Raven in 1985. it contains only two species: T. montanus and T. otwayensis. It was originally given the name "Terania", but it was later changed to "Teranodes" when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a genus of shield bugs.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyHexathelidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 133
- With media
- 46
- Family
- Hexathelidae
- Collections
- NMV, AM, QM, QVMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia
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- Parent taxon
- Hexathelidae
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Teranodes is a genus of Australian funnel-web spiders that was first described by Robert John Raven in 1985. it contains only two species: T. montanus and T. otwayensis. It was originally given the name "Terania", but it was later changed to "Teranodes" when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a genus of shield bugs.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Teranodes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.