a sydney funnel web spider lives on terrestrial.
where does a sydney funnel web spider live?
terrestrial
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the sydney funnel-web spider ("atrax robustus") is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern australia, usually found within a radius of sydney. it is a member of a group of spiders known as australian funnel-web spiders. its bite is capable of causing serious illness or death in humans if left untreated.









































the sydney funnel-web has a body length ranging from . both sexes are glossy and darkly colored, ranging from blue-black, to black, to brown or dark-plum colored.









































section::::taxonomy.
sydney funnel-web spider
the reverend 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". the species name is derived from the latin "robustus" "strong/sturdy/mature". some years later, william joseph rainbow described a male sydney funnel-web as a new species—"euctimena tibialis"—from a spider he found under a log in turramurra, and another from mosman. he coined the scientific name from the ancient greek "euktimenos" "well built" and latin "tibialis" "of the tibia", having noted its prominent tibial spur. in the same paper, he described a female sydney funnel web as yet another species—"poikilomorpha montana"—from a specimen collected from jamison valley and wentworth falls in the blue mountains. its species name was derived from "poikilomorphia" "variety of form" referring to the eyes of different sizes, and "montana" "of the mountains". in february 1927, a young boy died after being bitten on the hand after playing with a big black spider on the laundry steps of his home in the sydney suburb of thornleigh. he fell gravely ill and perished later that evening. public interest in spiders surged, and the police brought the dead spider to the australian museum, where anthony musgrave identified the creature as "euctimena tibialis". he examined a series of male and female spiders collected around sydney and concluded based on anatomical similarities that "euctimena tibialis" was the male "atrax robustus".
sydney funnel-web spider