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A Case for Below-Ground Dispersal? Insights into the Biology, Ecology and Conservation of Blind Cave Spiders in the Genus Troglodiplura (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae)

scientific article published in 2023

A new species of Micropholcomma (Araneae: Araneoidea: Micropho1commatidae) from Western Australia

A new species of pelican spider (Araneae: Archaeidae) from the Whitsunday hinterland of central-eastern Queensland ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 May 2024

A revision of the textricellin spider genus Raveniella (Araneae�:�Araneoidea�:�Micropholcommatidae): exploring patterns of phylogeny and biogeography in an Australian biodiversity hotspot

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A revision of the white-headed spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Euoplos (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Arbanitinae): a remarkable lineage of rare mygalomorph spiders from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 27 April 2019

Across the Indian Ocean: A remarkable example of trans-oceanic dispersal in an austral mygalomorph spider

scientific article

An African mygalomorph lineage in temperate Australia: the trapdoor spider genus M oggridgea (Araneae: Migidae) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

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Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia

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Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia

scientific article published on 7 May 2012

Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland

scientific article

Barcoding of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae : Mygalomorphae) in the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia reveals a highly diverse biota

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Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

Conservation systematics of the shield-backed trapdoor spiders of the nigrum-group (Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae, Idiosoma): integrative taxonomy reveals a diverse and threatened fauna from south-western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Correlation with a limited set of behavioral niches explains the convergence of somatic morphology in mygalomorph spiders

scientific article published in 2023

Demography, passive surveillance and potential habitat modelling of an Australian giant trapdoor spider (Idiopidae: <i>Euoplos grandis</i>) from the Queensland Brigalow Belt: half a decade of population monitoring for conservation outcomes

scientific article published in 2023

Description of five new Aname L. Koch, 1873 (Araneae, Anamidae) species collected on Bush Blitz expeditions

scientific article published in 2023

First phylogenetic assessment and taxonomic synopsis of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Namea (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae): a highly diverse mygalomorph lineage from Australia’s tropical eastern rainforests

scientific article

Micro-Computed Tomography Reveals a Remarkable Twin Intromittent Organ in Spiders – A Novelty for Arachnids With Direct Sperm Transfer

scientific article published on 9 December 2021

Molecular and morphological characterisation of new species in the trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) from the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia

scientific article (publication date: 10 July 2012)

Molecular phylogenetics of the spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae) using nuclear rRNA genes (18S and 28S).

scientific article published on 21 November 2007

Open-holed trapdoor spiders of the genus Teyl (Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anamini) from Western Australia’s Pilbara bioregion: a new species and expanded phylogenetic assessment

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna

scholarly article by Mark S. Harvey et al published 13 March 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Phylogeny and historical biogeography of ancient assassin spiders (Araneae: Archaeidae) in the Australian mesic zone: evidence for Miocene speciation within Tertiary refugia

scientific article

Population demography and biology of a new species of giant spiny trapdoor spider (Araneae: Idiopidae: Euoplos ) from inland Queensland: developing a ‘slow science’ study system to address a conservation crisis

scholarly article by Michael G. Rix et al published 30 August 2018 in Austral Entomology

Post-Eocene climate change across continental Australia and the diversification of Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae).

scientific article

Protecting the innocent: studying short-range endemic taxa enhances conservation outcomes

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Rainforest pelican spiders (Archaeidae: Austrarchaea) of south-eastern Queensland, Australia: two new species and a distributional reassessment of regional endemic clades

scientific article published on 10 August 2022

Refugia within refugia: in situ speciation and conservation of threatened Bertmainius (Araneae : Migidae), a new genus of relictual trapdoor spiders endemic to the mesic zone of south-western Australia

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Spiny trapdoor spiders (Euoplos) of eastern Australia: Broadly sympatric clades are differentiated by burrow architecture and male morphology

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Systematics of the Australasian spider family Pararchaeidae (Arachnida : Araneae)

article published in 2006

Systematics of the Australian golden trapdoor spiders of the Euoplos variabilis-group (Mygalomorphae : Idiopidae : Euoplini): parapatry and sympatry between closely related species in subtropical Queensland

scholarly article published in 2021

Systematics of the Australian spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Blakistonia Hogg (Araneae: Idiopidae)

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Systematics of the giant spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Gaius Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini): documenting an iconic lineage of the Western Australian inland arid zone

scientific article published in November 2018

Systematics of the palisade trapdoor spiders (Euoplos) of south-eastern Queensland (Araneae : Mygalomorphae : Idiopidae): four new species distinguished by their burrow entrance architecture

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone

scholarly article by Robert J. Raven published in 2018

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern Australian mesic zone ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape

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Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot

scholarly article by Robert J. Raven published in 2018

The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level

article by Rix et al., published in 2017

The open-holed trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae: Namea) of Australia's D'Aguilar Range: revealing an unexpected subtropical hotspot of rainforest diversity

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

The rediscovery of a relict unlocks the first global phylogeny of whip spiders (Amblypygi)

scientific article published on 27 April 2022

The spider families Synotaxidae and Malkaridae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea) in Western Australia

scientific article published in 2009

The spider family Micropholcommatidae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea): a relimitation and revision at the generic level

scientific article

The systematics and phylogenetic position of the troglobitic Australian spider genus Troglodiplura (Araneae : Mygalomorphae), with a new classification for Anamidae

scholarly article (2020)

Total‐evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia’s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2020

Where have all the spiders gone? The decline of a poorly known invertebrate fauna in the agricultural and arid zones of southern Australia

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