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Sydney Funnel-web spider, Mosman October 2019

Sydney Funnel-web spider, Mosman October 2019

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Thomas Mesaglio

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Atlas of Living Australia

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Mesaglio, Thomas

Scientist and photographer who has contributed material to iNaturalist, part of the Atlas of Living Australia.

Atlas of Living Australia

The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) is a collaborative, digital, open infrastructure that pulls together Australian biodiversity data from multiple sources, making it accessible and reusable. The ALA helps to create a more detailed picture of Australia’s biodiversity for scientists, policy makers, environmental planners and land managers, industry and the general public, and enables them to work more efficiently. The ALA aims to promote and enable evidence‑based decision making in all aspects of biodiversity and environmental research, policy and operational outcomes.

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Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider)

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Venomous spider native to an area of about 160km across Sydney. First described in 1877 by British arachnologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge from a specimen at the British Museum, he referred to its 'large, massive and very prominent' fangs however it was not identified as deadly until 1927 when 2 year old Clyde Thompson died after being bitten in Thornleigh.

Mosman

Large suburb on Sydney's lower north shore which, since colonial times, has been home to civil maritime and defence installations, and is also a popular recreation area, with many harbour beaches, Taronga Zoo and pockets of Sydney Harbour National Park.

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