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Atrax

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Order
  
Araneae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Arachnida

Infraorder
  
Mygalomorphae

Atrax

Atrax is a genus of venomous spiders found in Australia. It is a member of the subfamily Atracinae, the Australian funnel-web spiders, part of the Hexathelidae family. The genus was erected by the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877 for the species Atrax robustus.

As of January 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

  • Atrax robustus O.P.-Cambridge, 1877 — Sydney Basin, New South Wales
  • Atrax yorkmainorum Gray, 2010 — Canberra region, Southern New South Wales
  • Atrax sutherlandi Gray, 2010 — New South Wales far south coast, East Gippsland Victoria
  • References

    Atrax Wikipedia