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Arachtober 30 3 Golden Silk Spider Nephila clavipes, Dagny Johnson State Park, Key Largo, Florida🕷️

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SpeciesAraneaeAraneidae
Arthropods

🕷️Trichonephila clavipes

Trichonephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767)

عنكبوت الحرير الذهبي (الإسم العلمي: Trichonephila clavipes)(كان يعرف سابقًا باسم Nephila clavipes) هو نوع من أنواع العناكب التي تنتمي لجنس Trichonephila، موطنه الأصلي هو في قارتي أمريكا الشمالية والجنوبية. في الولايات المتحدة، يُعرف هذا العنكبوت باسم «عنكبوت الموز» و «حائك الحرير الذهبي».

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≈ 1/73,150th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0 kg
Body length
0.02 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Trichonephila clavipes

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0 kgtypical adult
World Spider Trait Database
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Herberstein et al. 2022; Anderson & Prestwich 1982

Source: World Spider Trait Database · Pekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064 · CC BY

By sex

  • Female0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Herberstein et al. 2022; Quesada et al. 2011
  • Male0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Herberstein et al. 2022; Quesada et al. 2011
Body length
0.02 maverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Levi 1980
Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Trichonephila clavipes yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classArachnida
  4. ›orderAraneae
  5. ›familyAraneidae
  6. ›genusTrichonephila
  7. ›speciesTrichonephila clavipes
Full lineage
  1. orderSpiders · Araneae
  2. superfamilyAraneoidea
  3. familyNephilidae
  4. genusTrichonephila
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders · Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. superfamilyAraneoidea
  7. familyNephilidae
  8. genusTrichonephila
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