Sydney funnel-web spider
Atrax robustus latin

The Sydney funnel-web spider's bite should be treated as a snake-bite.

Bites from Sydney funnel-web spiders have caused thirteen deaths (seven in children).

The Hexathelidae in particular include the notorious Sydney funnel-web spider.

He later expanded his repertoire to include spiders such as the Sydney funnel-web spider and exotic snakes.

Since the antivenom became available in 1981, there have been no recorded fatalities from Sydney funnel-web spider bites.

The Sydney funnel-web spider shares its name with some members of the genus Hadronyche.

As an example of the difference that test species may have, we may consider the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider.

Although these spiders are related to the Sydney funnel-web spider, they have not been implicated in any fatalities or serious envenomations.

The venomous funnel-web tarantulas include the infamous Sydney funnel-web spider.'

Some spider bites, such as those of the Sydney funnel-web spider, are reported to have penetrated toenails and soft leather shoes.

For instance, mouse tissue is approximately fifty times less responsive than human tissue to the venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider.

A Sydney funnel-web spider or Atrax robustus is a funnel-web spiders.

Sydney funnel-web spiders are mostly terrestrial spiders, favouring habitats with moist sand and clays.

The poison can be successfully treated with the antivenom for the related Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus).

The neurotoxic venoms of the Sydney funnel-web spider and the Brazilian wandering spider are both known to have lethal complications.

Only the Sydney funnel-web spider of Australia is frequently dangerous to adults, and it lives only within 100 miles of Sydney.

The Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was the first to describe the Sydney funnel-web spider, from a female specimen in 1877.

It is usually shy and retiring and is often confused with the Sydney funnel-web spider, which is one of the most venomous spiders in the world.

Only a few of the more than 2000 spiders in Australia are dangerous: these include the red-back spider, the Sydney funnel-web spider and white-tailed spiders.

Australian Museum Online - The Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax robustus)

A number of genera, including that of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax), used to be classified in this family but have now been moved to Hexathelidae.

He and Robyn received the National Australia Bank's humanitarian award for their contribution to the development of an antivenene for the Sydney funnel-web spider in 1981.

Zookeeper injected venom from the Sydney funnel-web spider into Garfield and attempted to dissect and extract the cure to Sakutia from him.

Since 1927 records are kept of envenomations by the Sydney funnel-web spider and 14 deaths have been reported in medical literature between 1927 and 1981, when the antivenom became available.

Bites by males of two large species, the Sydney funnel-web spider and northern tree funnel-web spider, have caused death, said the CSIRO.