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- Bird-dropping spider, Celaenia excavata
- Black House Spider, Badumna insignis
- Carrai Cave Spider, Progradungula carraiensis
- Comb-footed Platform Spider, Achaearanea mundula
- Cupboard Spiders, Steatoda sp.
- Daddy-long-legs Spider, Pholcus phalangioides
- Flower Spiders, Diaea sp.
- Foliage Webbing Spider
- Fringed Jumping Spider, Portia fimbriata
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- Badge Huntsman Spiders, Neosparassus sp.
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- Sydney Funnel-web Spider, Atrax robustus
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- Golden Orb Weaving Spiders, Nephila sp.
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- Redback Spider, Latrodectus hasselti
- Red-headed Mouse Spider, Missulena occatoria
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- St Andrew's Cross Spider, Argiope keyserlingi
- Tasmanian Cave Spider
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- Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider, Misgolas villosus
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Karen Player
13 February 2012
With 300 boxes booked already, 2012 is shaping up to be a very busy year.
Laura Williams
13 February 2012
Lady Tunakaimanu Feilakepa is renowned and greatly respected for her traditional cultural knowledge in Tonga and across the Pacific. Here she discusses Tongan mats, a decline in natural materials and the value of viewing such a collection.
what's new
- What's in the Box - are you ready for 2012
- Incredible Barreleye video
- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Decline in Natural Resources
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Handicrafts
- Blacktip Reef Shark at Casuarina Beach
- Spangled Emperor from near the Solitary Islands
- X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu
- The Power of X-rays
what's popular
- Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection
- Australian Lungfish
- Australian Museum Mammalogy Collection
- Australian Museum Ornithology Collection
- Warty Prowfish, Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861)
- Australian Museum Palaeontology Collection
- Palorchestes: A tale of misidentification
- Birds: Aves
- Mammals: Mammalia
- Sawflies, Wasps, Bees and Ants: Order Hymenoptera
recent comments
Blotched Blue-tongue Lizard
Hi Tony,
The reason your blue tongue doesn’t have a blue tongue is because…..it’s a Pink Tongue Skink,...
Funnel-web Spiders
@zoesmyth - The spider you have found is neither a funnel-web or a trapdoor. It is what most people...
Funnel-web Spiders
@fish4fish3 - Its hard to give you a definitive answer but from your pics the spider IS NOT a Sydney...




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