The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2025

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definitely an Atracid, but on the potato phone tonight,...

User shua-barefoot, in the AustralianSpiders subreddit, 13 Aug 2025

definitely an Atracid, but on the potato phone tonight, so... these two papers have everything you need: [A Revision of the…

[https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128...

User propargyl, in the AustralianSpiders subreddit, 25 Feb 2025

[https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-024-02332-0](https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118…

# Implications for Venom Research and antivenom...

User Dry-Professional-BER, in the Spiders subreddit, 17 Jan 2025

# Implications for Venom Research and antivenom…

Pretty sure [this is the...

User ekac, in the Reddit Pics subreddit, 14 Jan 2025

Pretty sure [this is the article](https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-024-02332-0) about that spider.

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