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Teranodes

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Teranodes is a genus of Australian funnel-web spiders that was first described by Robert John Raven in 1985.^[2] As of May 2019 it contains only two species: T. montanus and T. otwayensis.^[1] It was originally given the name "Terania",^[3] but it was later changed to "Teranodes" when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a genus of beetles.^[2]

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Teranodes Raven, 1985". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
^ ^a ^b Raven, R. J. (1985). "The spider infraorder Mygalomorphae (Araneae): Cladistics and systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 182: 1–180.
^ Raven, R. J. (1980). "The evolution and biogeography of the mygalomorph spider family Hexathelidae (Araneae, Chelicerata)". Journal of Arachnology. 8: 253.

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Teranodes is a genus of Australian funnel-web spiders that was first described by Robert John Raven in 1985. As of May 2019 it contains only two species: T. montanus and T. otwayensis. It was originally given the name "Terania", but it was later changed to "Teranodes" when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a genus of beetles.