🕷️Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dolomedes tenebrosus, known as the dark fishing spider, is a species of fishing spider found in the United States and Canada. Despite belonging to Dolomedes, it is better described as a "tree-dwelling spider".
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Dolomedes tenebrosus yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Dolomedes tenebrosus
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.01 maverage0.01–0.02 m · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Dondale & Redner 1990
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Kaston 1948
- Female0.03 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Kaston 1948
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spiders of Canada; Dondale & Redner 1990
- Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spiders of Canada; Dondale & Redner 1990
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spiders of Canada; Dondale & Redner 1990
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Dolomedes tenebrosus yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyPisauridae
- ›genusDolomedes
- ›speciesDolomedes tenebrosus
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familyPisauridae
- genusDolomedes
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familyPisauridae
- genusDolomedes
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