Gold Coast Spiders > Spider Index
Queensland Gold Coast is a home to a range of spiders, from the familiar to the not so familiar. Check out some of the following listed spiders presented here and come back as we add more over time. Many thanks to author/contributor Stefan Jones for his spider photographs.
Click on the image to see information on the different spiders.
Photographs, Gold Coast QLD © Stefan Jones
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborders:
- Mesothelae
- Opisthothelae
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Stefan Jones
- Arkys cornutus L. Koch, 1872, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Arkys cornutus
- Horned Arkys (Arkys cornutus), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/201611-Arkys-cornutus
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