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Funnel-web Spiders
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/funnel-web-spiders-group/Funnel-web spiders, the most notorious members of our spider fauna, are found in eastern Australia.
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Sydney Funnel-web Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/sydney-funnel-web-spider/Probably the most notorious of all spiders, Sydney Funnel-webs have a fearsome reputation. Most of this is deserved, but some is exaggerated.
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Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/sydney-brown-trapdoor-spider/Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider, Arbanitis villosus
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Redback Spider
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/redback-spider/Redback spiders belong to the Family Theridiidae, which is found worldwide. The notorious Black Widow Spider (Latrodectus sp) of the United States is a close relative of the Redback Spider, and only differs in appearance by the absence of a red dorsal stripe.
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Platypus
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/platypus/The Platypus is a unique Australian species. Along with echidnas, Platypuses are grouped in a separate order of mammals known as monotremes, which are distinguished from all other mammals because they lay eggs.
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Reef Stonefish
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/reef-stonefish-synanceia-verrucosa-bloch-schneider-1801/Reef Stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
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Smooth Stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/smooth-stingray-dasyatis-brevicaudata-hutton-1875/Smooth Stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875)
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Bull Shark, Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/bull-shark-carcharhinus-leucas-valenciennes-1839/Bull Shark, Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839
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White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/white-shark-carcharodon-carcharias-linnaeus-1758/White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)
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