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Physical Characteristics
Food Source
Scientific Classification
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Physical Characteristics
Mouse Spiders are medium to large
spiders. Female Mouse Spiders are
larger than males. Male Mouse Spiders
have longer legs. Mouse Spiders are
either black or brown in colour with
short, stocky, thick legs.
Female Mouse Spider/ Missulena
Fun Facts
Adaptations:
Mouse spiders does not have great eyesight and uses its good
sense of vibration, when prey passes by the mouse spider can
feel through the web. It has venom to kill its prey.
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Food Source
Mouse spiders prey
mainly on insects though
they may consume other
small animals as
opportunity presents
Mouse spiders are aggressive
spiders and will bite if
provoked.
A Mouse spider is so named
because it actually resembles
the small rodent.
It is brown and furry and
moves fast, just like a mouse.
They are highly venomous
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Scientific Classification
Mouse spiders are spiders of the genus
Missulena, in the mygalomorph family
Actinopodidae. There are 13 known species in
this genus, all but one of which are
indigenous to Australia.
Mouse spiders are fairly large spiders that
live in burrows in the ground. They feel
insects and small animals above them and
come out to attack them and kill them with
venom. They are very poisonous but are not
a real threat to humans. They get their
names because they look like small mice
that move very quickly
Glossary of Terms
Mgalomorph- order or spiders that have fangs
that point straight out and do not cross
Resembles- looks like
Venomous- containing venom. Venom is a
poison