''Teranodes'' is a
genus of
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
n
funnel-web spiders that was first described by
Robert John Raven
Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described many species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider b ...
in 1985.
it contains only two species: ''
T. montanus'' and ''
T. otwayensis''.
It was originally given the name "Terania",
but it was later changed to "Teranodes" when it was discovered that the name was already in use for a
genus of shield bugs.
References
Hexathelidae
Mygalomorphae genera
Spiders of Australia
Taxa named by Robert Raven
Taxa described in 1985
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