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• Fotos de aranhas peçonhentas Latrodectus geometricus, Loxesceles, Phoneutria nigriventer, Atrax robustus, Lycosa erythrognatha. Aquabiotech (in Portuguese) (Brazil)
  
• Venomous spiders This webpage discusses the most venomous spiders of the world as well as less harmful but anyway exciting spiders. Peter M. Hansen (Denmark)
  
• Three of the worst With Atrax, Funnel web spider. Damon Shorter. ABC Online News (Australia)
  
• Spider Fact Sheets Factsheets of a large list of spiders. For every species information is given. Australian Museum Online (Australia)
  
• Spider Envenomations, Funnel Web Much info and some pictures. eMedicine.com
  
• Sydney Funnel-web Spider Atrax robustus (Family Hexathelidae). Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Australia)
  
• Spinnen Information and pictures of Atrax, Araneus diadematus, Latrodectus, Phoneutria, Tarantulas. Ralf Rebmann (in German) (Germany)
  
• Atrax and Hadronyche A lot of info. International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS)
  
• Funnel-web spider Funnel-web spiders are only found in Australia. There are at least 40 different species, and not all are dangerous, unlike the notorious Sydney Funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus). Museum Victoria (Australia)
  
• First funnelweb spider found in inner Brisbane Queensland Museum spider expert, Dr Robert Raven, has urged inner-Brisbane residents to be on the look out for Funnelweb spiders (Hadronyche infensa) following the hospitalisation of a bite victim. Queensland Museum News

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