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Spiders
Any arachnid of the order Araneae, having a body divided into a cephalothorax with eight legs, two poison fangs, and two feelers as well as an unsegmented abdomen with several spinnerets that produce the silk used to make nests, cocoons, or webs for trapping insects.
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scorpion tailed spider
Animals; Spiders
So named because of the female’s weird abdomen, ended in a “tail” similar to that of a scorpion. When threatened, the scorpion-tailed spider arches this tail as a scorpion would. Only the female has ...
argyrodes columbrinus
Animals; Spiders
Usually known as the whip spider, although this name is also used for another arachnid and could lead to confusion. Found in Australia, this spider has a long, thin abdomen similar to a snake’s body, ...
argyroneta aquatica
Animals; Spiders
Known usually as the water spider or diving bell spider, it is the only completely aquatic spider in the world. It is found in Europe and Asia, from the UK to Siberia, and lives in ponds, slow moving ...
bird dung crab spider
Animals; Spiders
This spider has one of the most effective camouflages of all animals; its body is covered in blobs and warts that give it the appearance of a fresh piece of bird excrement; it often produces a small ...
bagheera kiplingi
Animals; Spiders
This spider was named bagheera kiplingi after bagheera, the black panther character in The Jungle Book, and the book’s author Rudyard Kipling. It was seemingly named because of it’s panther-like ...
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