Table of Contents
111 relations: Acroceridae, Actinopodidae, Amblyocarenum nuragicus, Aname atra, Anamidae, Ancient Greek, Antrodiaetidae, Aptostichus simus, Araneomorphae, Araneus, Atrax, Atypical tarantula, Atypoidea, Atypoides riversi, Australian funnel-web spider, Avicularioidea, Barychelidae, Bemmeridae, Bipectina, Bird, Book lung, Bothriocyrtum californicum, Calathotarsus simoni, Charles Walckenaer, Chelicerae, Circumscription (taxonomy), Cladogram, Crassitarsae, Cribellum, Cteniza sauvagesi, Ctenizidae, Diplura lineata, Dipluridae, Domiothelina, Dwarf tarantula, Entypesa andohahela, Entypesidae, Envia garciai, Euagridae, Euagrus formosanus, Euctenizidae, Europe, Eurypterid, Fossorial, Fufius lucasae, Genus, Goliath birdeater, Halonoproctidae, Hexathele hochstetteri, Hexathelidae, ... Expand index (61 more) »
- Extant Triassic first appearances
Acroceridae
The Acroceridae are a small family of odd-looking flies.
See Mygalomorphae and Acroceridae
Actinopodidae
Actinopodidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders found in mainland Australia and South America usually in open forest.
See Mygalomorphae and Actinopodidae
Amblyocarenum nuragicus
Amblyocarenum nuragicus, or also Nuragic spider, is a spider in the family Nemesiidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Amblyocarenum nuragicus
Aname atra
Aname atra, the black wishbone spider, is a mygalomorph spider of Southern Australia.
See Mygalomorphae and Aname atra
Anamidae
Anamidae is a family of Australian mygalomorph spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Anamidae
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Mygalomorphae and Ancient Greek
Antrodiaetidae
Antrodiaetidae, also known as folding trapdoor spiders or folding-door spiders, is a small spider family related to atypical tarantulas.
See Mygalomorphae and Antrodiaetidae
Aptostichus simus
Aptostichus simus is a species of trapdoor spider in the family Euctenizidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Aptostichus simus
Araneomorphae
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae
Araneus
Araneus is a genus of common orb-weaving spiders.
Atrax
Atrax is a genus of venomous Australian funnel web spiders that was first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1877 from the type species Atrax robustus.
Atypical tarantula
Atypidae, also known as atypical tarantulas or purseweb spiders, is a spider family containing only three genera.
See Mygalomorphae and Atypical tarantula
Atypoidea
Atypoidea is a clade of mygalomorph spiders, one of the two main groups into which the mygalomorphs are divided (the other being Avicularioidea).
See Mygalomorphae and Atypoidea
Atypoides riversi
Atypoides riversi, known as turret spider, is a species of mygalomorph spider in the family Antrodiaetidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Atypoides riversi
Australian funnel-web spider
Atracidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, commonly known as Australian funnel-web spiders or atracids.
See Mygalomorphae and Australian funnel-web spider
Avicularioidea
Avicularioidea is a clade of mygalomorph spiders, one of the two main clades into which mygalomorphs are divided (the other being the Atypoidea).
See Mygalomorphae and Avicularioidea
Barychelidae
Barychelidae, also known as brushed trapdoor spiders, is a spider family with about 300 species in 39 genera.
See Mygalomorphae and Barychelidae
Bemmeridae
Bemmeridae is a family of African and Asian mygalomorph spiders that was first described as the tribe Bemmereae by Eugène Simon in 1903.
See Mygalomorphae and Bemmeridae
Bipectina
Bipectina is a clade of avicularioid mygalomorph spiders first proposed by Pablo A. Goloboff in 1993, based on a morphological cladistic analysis.
See Mygalomorphae and Bipectina
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Book lung
A book lung is a type of respiration organ used for atmospheric gas exchange that is present in many arachnids, such as scorpions and spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Book lung
Bothriocyrtum californicum
Bothriocyrtum californicum, the California trapdoor spider, is a species of spider in the family Halonoproctidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Bothriocyrtum californicum
Calathotarsus simoni
Calathotarsus simoni is a species of spider in the family Migidae, found in Argentina.
See Mygalomorphae and Calathotarsus simoni
Charles Walckenaer
Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer (25 December 1771 – 28 April 1852) was a French civil servant, writer, man of letters, and scientist.
See Mygalomorphae and Charles Walckenaer
Chelicerae
The chelicerae are the mouthparts of the subphylum Chelicerata, an arthropod group that includes arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Chelicerae
Circumscription (taxonomy)
In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the content of a taxon, that is, the delimitation of which subordinate taxa are parts of that taxon.
See Mygalomorphae and Circumscription (taxonomy)
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
See Mygalomorphae and Cladogram
Crassitarsae
Crassitarsae is a clade of avicularioid mygalomorph spiders first proposed by Robert J. Raven in 1985, based on a morphological cladistic analysis.
See Mygalomorphae and Crassitarsae
Cribellum
Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates.
See Mygalomorphae and Cribellum
Cteniza sauvagesi
Cteniza sauvagesi is a trapdoor spider first described in 1788 by Pietro Rossi.
See Mygalomorphae and Cteniza sauvagesi
Ctenizidae
Ctenizidae is a small family of mygalomorph spiders that construct burrows with a cork-like trapdoor made of soil, vegetation, and silk.
See Mygalomorphae and Ctenizidae
Diplura lineata
Diplura lineata is a species of funnel-web tarantulas belonging to the subfamily Diplurinae.
See Mygalomorphae and Diplura lineata
Dipluridae
The family Dipluridae, known as curtain-web spiders (or confusingly with other distantly related ones as funnel-web tarantulas) are a group of spiders in the infraorder Mygalomorphae, that have two pairs of booklungs, and chelicerae (fangs) that move up and down in a stabbing motion.
See Mygalomorphae and Dipluridae
Domiothelina
Domiothelina is a clade of avicularioid mygalomorph spiders first proposed by Robert J. Raven in 1985, based on a morphological cladistic analysis.
See Mygalomorphae and Domiothelina
Dwarf tarantula
Dwarf tarantulas, also known as sheet funnel-web spiders are a type of spider from the family Mecicobothriidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Dwarf tarantula
Entypesa andohahela
Entypesa andohahela is a species of spider in the family Entypesidae, endemic to Madagascar.
See Mygalomorphae and Entypesa andohahela
Entypesidae
Entypesidae is a family of African mygalomorphae spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Entypesidae
Envia garciai
Envia garciai is a small (3 mm) pale yellow species of mygalomorph spider from Brazil.
See Mygalomorphae and Envia garciai
Euagridae
Euagridae is a family of mygalomorph spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Euagridae
Euagrus formosanus
Euagrus formosanus is a species of Taiwanese spider in the family Euagridae.
See Mygalomorphae and Euagrus formosanus
Euctenizidae
The Euctenizidae (formerly Cyrtaucheniidae subfamily Euctenizinae) are a family of mygalomorph spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Euctenizidae
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Eurypterid
Eurypterids, often informally called sea scorpions, are a group of extinct arthropods that form the order Eurypterida.
See Mygalomorphae and Eurypterid
Fossorial
A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily (but not solely) underground.
See Mygalomorphae and Fossorial
Fufius lucasae
Fufius lucasae is a spider in the family Rhytidicolidae, native to Brazil.
See Mygalomorphae and Fufius lucasae
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Goliath birdeater
The Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi) belongs to the tarantula family Theraphosidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Goliath birdeater
Halonoproctidae
Halonoproctidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Ctenizidae in 2018.
See Mygalomorphae and Halonoproctidae
Hexathele hochstetteri
Hexathele hochstetteri, commonly known as the banded tunnelweb spider, is a spider in the family Hexathelidae, found only in New Zealand.
See Mygalomorphae and Hexathele hochstetteri
Hexathelidae
Hexathelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Hexathelidae
Hexurella
Hexurella is a genus of spiders, found in the United States and Mexico.
See Mygalomorphae and Hexurella
Hexurella pinea
Hexurella pinea is a species of spider native to the United States.
See Mygalomorphae and Hexurella pinea
Homoplasy
Homoplasy, in biology and phylogenetics, is the term used to describe a feature that has been gained or lost independently in separate lineages over the course of evolution.
See Mygalomorphae and Homoplasy
Idiopidae
Idiopidae, also known as armored or spiny trapdoor spiders, is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1889.
See Mygalomorphae and Idiopidae
Idiosoma nigrum
Idiosoma nigrum, also called black rugose trapdoor spider, occurs only in south-western Western Australia, in dry woodlands east of the Darling Scarp and north to Moore River.
See Mygalomorphae and Idiosoma nigrum
Ischnothele caudata
Ischnothele caudata is a spider in the family Ischnothelidae, found from Mexico to Brazil.
See Mygalomorphae and Ischnothele caudata
Ischnothelidae
Ischnothelidaeis a family of mygalomorph spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Ischnothelidae
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
See Mygalomorphae and Jurassic
List of trapdoor spiders
Trapdoor spider is a common name that is used to refer to various spiders from several different groups that create burrows with a silk-hinged trapdoor to help them ambush prey.
See Mygalomorphae and List of trapdoor spiders
Macrothele calpeiana
Macrothele calpeiana, commonly known as the Gibraltar funnel-web spider or Spanish funnel-web spider, is one of the largest spiders in Europe.
See Mygalomorphae and Macrothele calpeiana
Macrothelidae
Macrothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders, split off from the family Hexathelidae in 2018.
See Mygalomorphae and Macrothelidae
Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mecicobothrium thorelli
Mecicobothrium thorelli is a spider in the family Mecicobothriidae, native to Argentina and Uruguay.
See Mygalomorphae and Mecicobothrium thorelli
Megahexura
Megahexura is a genus of spiders with the sole species Megahexura fulva, discovered in 1919.
See Mygalomorphae and Megahexura
Megarachne
Megarachne is a genus of eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods.
See Mygalomorphae and Megarachne
Mesothelae
The Mesothelae are a suborder of spiders (order Araneae).
See Mygalomorphae and Mesothelae
Microhexura
Microhexura is a genus of tiny North American spiders that was first described by C. R. Crosby & S. C. Bishop in 1925.
See Mygalomorphae and Microhexura
Microstigmatidae
Microstigmatidae is a small family of spiders with about 38 described species in eleven genera.
See Mygalomorphae and Microstigmatidae
Migidae
Migidae, also known as tree trapdoor spiders, is a family of spiders with about 100 species in eleven genera.
Missulena
Missulena is a genus of mygalomorph spiders in the family Actinopodidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Missulena
Missulena bradleyi
Missulena bradleyi, also known as the eastern mouse spider, is a species of spider belonging to the family Actinopodidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Missulena bradleyi
Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
See Mygalomorphae and Molecular phylogenetics
Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
See Mygalomorphae and Monophyly
Nemesiidae
Nemesiidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1889, and raised to family status in 1985.
See Mygalomorphae and Nemesiidae
Nemesioidina
Nemesioidina is a clade of avicularioid mygalomorph spiders proposed in 2020, based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis.
See Mygalomorphae and Nemesioidina
Opisthothelae
Opisthothelae is a suborder of spiders within the order Araneae, containing Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae, but excluding Mesothelae.
See Mygalomorphae and Opisthothelae
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Mygalomorphae and Order (biology)
Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
See Mygalomorphae and Parasitism
Paratropididae
Paratropididae, also known as bald-legged spiders, is a small family of mygalomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1889.
See Mygalomorphae and Paratropididae
Paratropis tuxtlensis
Paratropis tuxtlensis is a species of spider in the family Paratropididae.
See Mygalomorphae and Paratropis tuxtlensis
Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).
See Mygalomorphae and Pennsylvanian (geology)
Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy
In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy ("near form") and symplesiomorphy are synonyms for an ancestral character shared by all members of a clade, which does not distinguish the clade from other clades.
See Mygalomorphae and Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy
Porrhothele
Porrhothele is a genus of mygalomorph spiders endemic to New Zealand.
See Mygalomorphae and Porrhothele
Porrhothele antipodiana
Porrhothele antipodiana, the black tunnelweb spider, is a species of mygalomorph spider that lives in New Zealand.
See Mygalomorphae and Porrhothele antipodiana
Primitive (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, a primitive (or ancestral) character, trait, or feature of a lineage or taxon is one that is inherited from the common ancestor of a clade (or clade group) and has undergone little change since.
See Mygalomorphae and Primitive (phylogenetics)
Pycnothelidae
Pycnothelidae is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described in 1917.
See Mygalomorphae and Pycnothelidae
Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
Rhytidicolidae
Rhytidicolidae, also known as golden tunnel-web spiders, is a small Neotropical family of mygalomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1903.
See Mygalomorphae and Rhytidicolidae
Robert Raven
Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum.
See Mygalomorphae and Robert Raven
Rosamygale
Rosamygale is a genus of extinct Triassic spiders, with a single described species, Rosamygale grauvogeli.
See Mygalomorphae and Rosamygale
Sason sundaicum
Sason sundaicum is a species of barychelid trapdoor spiders that is found on trees near the sea, usually closer than 100 metres, although distances of up to five kilometres have been observed.
See Mygalomorphae and Sason sundaicum
Sphodros rufipes
Sphodros rufipes, sometimes called the red legged purseweb spider, is a mygalomorph spider from the southern United States, though it has been photographed as far north as Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Minnesota, Tennessee, Delaware, Louisiana, and Tuckernuck Island in Massachusetts.
See Mygalomorphae and Sphodros rufipes
Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
Spiroctenus personatus
Spiroctenus personatus is a spider in the family Bemmeridae, found in Southern Africa.
See Mygalomorphae and Spiroctenus personatus
Spruce-fir moss spider
The spruce-fir moss spider (Microhexura montivaga) is an endangered species of spider found at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
See Mygalomorphae and Spruce-fir moss spider
Stanwellia hoggi
Stanwellia hoggi is a ground spider, found in New South Wales, Australia.
See Mygalomorphae and Stanwellia hoggi
Stasimopus
Stasimopus is a genus of African mygalomorph spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892.
See Mygalomorphae and Stasimopus
Stasimopus mandelai
Stasimopus mandelai is a species of spider in the family Stasimopidae from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
See Mygalomorphae and Stasimopus mandelai
Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
See Mygalomorphae and Subtropics
Sydney funnel-web spider
The Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) is a species of venomous mygalomorph spider native to eastern Australia, usually found within a radius of Sydney.
See Mygalomorphae and Sydney funnel-web spider
Tarantula
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae.
See Mygalomorphae and Tarantula
Tergum
A tergum (Latin for "the back";: terga, associated adjective tergal) is the dorsal ('upper') portion of an arthropod segment other than the head.
Theraphosoidina
Theraphosoidina is a clade of avicularioid mygalomorph spiders first proposed by Robert J. Raven in 1985, based on a morphological cladistic analysis.
See Mygalomorphae and Theraphosoidina
Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
See Mygalomorphae and Triassic
Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
See Mygalomorphae and United States
Venom
Venom or zootoxin is a type of toxin produced by an animal that is actively delivered through a wound by means of a bite, sting, or similar action.
Wafer-lid trapdoor spider
The family Cyrtaucheniidae, known as wafer-lid trapdoor spiders, are a widespread family of Mygalomorphae spiders.
See Mygalomorphae and Wafer-lid trapdoor spider
Western Ghats
The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches along the western coast of the Indian peninsula.
See Mygalomorphae and Western Ghats
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy.
See Mygalomorphae and World Spider Catalog
See also
Extant Triassic first appearances
- Araucaria
- Bourgueticrinida
- Caddisfly
- Cerithium
- Chironomidae
- Cidaris
- Cricket (insect)
- Eomeropidae
- Euspira
- Grasshopper
- Grylloblattidae
- Heteroptera
- Hymenoptera
- Hymenopterida
- Isocrinidae
- Limulus
- Lithophaga
- Lopha
- Meropeidae
- Mygalomorphae
- Nautilus
- Notoptera
- Osmunda
- Penaeidae
- Polyphaga
- Propeamussiidae
- Pteria (bivalve)
- Pycnodonte
- Sawfly
- Scale insect
- Spondylus
- Teleosteomorpha
- Tetrigidae
- Trigoniidae
- Triops longicaudatus
References
Also known as Fornicephalae, Mecicobothrioidina, Migoidea, Mygalomorph, Mygalomorphs, Orthognatha, Tuberculotae.