- The Mygalomorphae, or
mygalomorphs, are an
infraorder of spiders, and
comprise one of
three major groups of
living spiders with over 3,000 species, found...
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Araneomorphae despite being mygalomorphs, and have
fangs that can move diagonally.
Distinguishing araneomorphs and
mygalomorphs on
first inspection is difficult...
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Euctenizidae ("wafer-lid
trapdoor spiders"), in the
infraorder Mygalomorphae ("
mygalomorphs"). The
distribution range of
Myrmekiaphila comstocki includes the USA...
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Europe and Turkey,
particularly in
France and Italy. Like many
other mygalomorphs,
Cteniza have
highly localized distributions. This
results in clumps...
- (ancestral) for many
groups of
mygalomorphs. It can be
securely placed in Avicularioidea, one of the two
major groupings of
mygalomorph spiders based on the absence...
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Avicularioidea is a
clade of
mygalomorph spiders, one of the two main
clades into
which mygalomorphs are
divided (the
other being the Atypoidea). It has...
- both
movement and expansion. The same two
muscles are also
present in
mygalomorphs. In
araneomorph spiders there is a
trend towards loss of
muscles and...
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dwarf tarantulas.
These spiders are
related to
tarantulas (all
being mygalomorphs) but fall into
different families from them.
Huntsman spiders of the...
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Atypoidea is a
clade of
mygalomorph spiders, one of the two main
groups into
which the
mygalomorphs are
divided (the
other being Avicularioidea). It has...
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spider (Atrax christenseni) or
Newcastle big boy is a
species of
venomous mygalomorph funnel-web
spider of the
family Atracidae,
native to an area
north of...
