Atrax

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Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Chelicerata Order Araneae		Phylum Arthropoda Class Arachnida Infraorder Mygalomorphae

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

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Atrax Wikipedia

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