Araneae {order} - Arthropoda; Arachnida;

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exceptions of air and sea colonization. As of November 2015, at least 45,700 spider species, and 113 families have been recorded by taxonomists. Anatomically, spiders differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segments are fused into two tagmata, the cephalothorax and abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical pedicel. Their abdomens bear appendages that have been modified into spinnerets that extrude silk from up to six types of glands. Spider webs vary widely in size, shape and the amount of sticky thread used. full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records:	282,186	Public Records:	197,113
Specimens with Sequences:	239,174	Public Species:	11,027
Specimens with Barcodes:	223,003	Public BINs:	19,608
Species:	12,996
Species With Barcodes:	11,142
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Canada 69845 Spain 4208 Panama 2304 Costa Rica 23353 Argentina 3477 Peru 2102 United States 17385 Mexico 3347 Turkey 1902 South Africa 11460 Russia 3280 Thailand 1883 Germany 7076 India 3058 Bangladesh 1681 Australia 5112 France 2433 Dominican Republic 1446 Pakistan 4654 Ecuador 2386