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Grammostola grossa is a terrestrial bird spider. It hides under roots, pieces of bark, stones or fallen leaves. In colder months and during moulting and brood care, it retreats into living burrows, which it lines with spider silk. [6] Habitat changes by humans due to livestock, agriculture and timber farming have allowed this species to spread.
Grammostola is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described in text by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892. [5] These medium- to large-sized spiders are native to tropical South America , and are usually brown in color, with pinkish or orangish-red hairs.
Grammostola doeringi (Holmberg, 1881) - Argentina; Grammostola gossei (Pocock, 1899) - Argentina; Grammostola grossa (Ausserer, 1871) - Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina; Grammostola iheringi (Keyserling, 1891) - Brazil; Grammostola inermis Mello-Leitão, 1941 - Argentina; Grammostola mendozae (Strand, 1907) - Argentina; Grammostola pulchra ...
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae. [2] As of December 2023, 1,100 species have been identified, with 166 genera. [3] The term "tarantula" is usually used to describe members of the family Theraphosidae, although many other members of the same infraorder (Mygalomorphae) are commonly referred to as "tarantulas" or "false tarantulas".
Lisowicia compared to a human. The plant-eating dicynodont Lisowicia bojani is the largest-known of all non-mammalian synapsids, at about 4.5 m (15 ft) long, 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) tall, and 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) in body mass.
The Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola rosea), also known as the rose hair tarantula, the Chilean fire tarantula, or the Chilean red-haired tarantula (depending on the color morph), is probably the most common species of tarantula available in American and European pet stores today, due to the large number of wild-caught specimens exported cheaply from their native Chile into the pet trade.
It exhibits a multitude of colors, with bright yellowish leg stripes, dark black "femurs", and pink hairs all over its body. As with the rest of the genus Grammostola, the Chaco golden knee has very large fangs, and the carapace (the top of the prosoma) is raised to make room for the large chelicerae. It has rudimentary eyesight, and senses its ...
A few have relatively short but wide bodies, for example Malacobdella grossa is up to 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) long and 1 centimetre (0.39 in) wide, [9] [18] and some of these are much less stretchy. [17] Smaller nemerteans are approximately cylindrical, but larger species are flattened dorso-ventrally. Many have visible patterns in various ...