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Teranodes montanus
Teranodes montanus is a species of funnel-web spider in the Hexathelidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1927 by Australian arachnologist Vernon Victor Hickman.
From the article Teranodes montanus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The species occurs in Tasmania and Victoria, in closed forest habitats. The type locality is the Higgs Track, Great Western Tiers, near Chudleigh, Tasmania.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The spiders are fossorial, terrestrial predators that build silk-lined burrows beneath rocks and rotten logs.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 534677.