Funnel-Web Spider

Hello reader,


Today we will seeing (or not) one of the most dangerous spider from Australia. The Funnel-Web.

I believe that everyone in Australia who lives there know about this spider venom and probabli how to distinguish her. Then, this is a animal that you NOT wanna see, because it can kill you, and it can happen in 15 min if you got a good amount of venom. With luck, if you are unluckly for bin bite, the spider in question can have not inject such a month of venom and you have a good time to go call an ambulance or go on hospital. But please, go. That is not the kind of venom your body can handle by himself.

This spider is the worl’s deadliest of all, so keep your distance for safety.

Don’t do what this fellow is doing, he work with spider and have the antivenom aside him for the worst. Besides, he know what he is doing.

Look how cool is this, what gives har name Funnel-web.

Distribution: Sydney, Central Coast and Illawarra regions and west to the Blue Mountains

The kind of spiders who receives the name Funnel-Web are tree.

• The Sydney Funnel-Web Spider (Atrax robustus) is a ground dweller in moist soil areas along much of the eastern coastal area of New South Wales and Victoria.
• The Blue Mountains Funnel-Web Spider (Hadronyche versuta) is found mainly in the Blue Mountains area, as far west as the Bathurst - Orange region and occasionally in the Sydney basin.
• The Northern Tree Funnel-Web Spider (Hadronyche formidabili) is found in south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales as far south as the Hunter Valley region.

And this treplet need to be feard. All them have that chance of killing you in 15 minutes. But don’t worry so much if you see one, they want to eat their prey (such as beetles, cockroaches, small lizards or snails,) and probably will ignore you. Unless you make them feel treathen, then they start to consider about biting you. So, keep your distance.


Anothar interisting fact is that they have rearward-facing fangs capable of piercing through fingernails.

Kingdom> Animalia
Phylum> Arthropoda
Subphylom> Chelicerata
Class> Arachnida
Order> Aranea
Infraorder> Mygalomorphae
Family> Hexathelidae
Subfamily> Atracinae
Genus> Atrax

~Catch you later!

References:
https://australianmuseum.net.au/sydney-funnel-web-spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrax
http://www.spiders.com.au/funnel-web-spider.html
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/02/worlds-deadliest-spider-the-sydney-funnel-web
https://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/19162/1556_complete.pdf

R. Gray, Michael. (2010). A Revision of the Australian Funnel-web Spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Records of the Australian Museum. 62. 285-392. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1556.