Megadolomedes australianus

Giant water spider at Cotter River, ACT

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Location information

• Coordinates 148.874122-35.314595
• Maps Lower Cotter Catchment
• Places Cotter River, ACT

Sighting information

• 1 Abundance
• 26 Mar 2017 02:05 PM Recorded on
• HarveyPerkins Recorded by

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  Spiders Water spiders (Pisauridae) HarveyPerkins Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

• 50mm or larger Animal size

Species information

• Megadolomedes australianus Scientific name
• Giant water spider Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local native
• Non-invasive or negligible
• Up to 635.7m Recorded at altitude
• Machine learning
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