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Theraphosidae

family of spiders
Taxon taxon Q213383

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
taxon
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6]
Different from
tarantella[8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9]
Parent taxon
Theraphosoidea[3]
Taxon author citation
Thorell, 1869[10]
Taxon common name
Tarantulas[7]
Taxon name
Theraphosidae[4]
Taxon rank
family[2]
Taxonomic type
Theraphosa[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en tarantulas en Theraphosidae ar رتيلاء ar الرتيلاء ar الرٌّتَيْلَى cs sklípkanovití da Fugleedderkopper da Tarantula da Fugleedderkop da Theraphosidae de Vogelspinnen de Theraphosidae el Θηραφωσίδες es tarantula es tarántula es Theraphosidae es pollito araña es terafosidos es terafósido es terafosido
🔖 Identifiers · 43
GND ID
4127132-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Brachypelma edit.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Theraphosidae
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Theraphosidae
BNCF Thesaurus ID
43634
BOLD Systems taxon ID
1427
BioLib taxon ID
133493
BugGuide taxon ID
1961
Catalogue of Life ID
H6K
Dewey Decimal Classification
595.44
EPPO Code
1THPSF
Encyclopedia of Life ID
170
Show all 43 identifiers +31
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/tarantula
Fauna Europaea ID
10635
Fauna Europaea New ID
84a219d3-b640-4b64-aee0-d308a7a54cff
Fossilworks taxon ID
257475
Freebase ID
/m/01phsx
GBIF taxon ID
5650
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3172222
Harper's tag
tarantulas
IMDb keyword
tarantula
INaturalist taxon ID
47424
IRMNG ID
101227
ITIS TSN
847765
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
tarantulas
KBpedia ID
Tarantula
Lex ID
fugleedderkop
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2777542356
NCBI taxonomy ID
6895
NL CR AUT ID
ph117149
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007560957105171
National Library of Latvia ID
000298812
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
5653106e-abf3-40fe-b3e5-3b2b9af0ce42
Open Tree of Life ID
614529
Plazi ID
A521879F-FFD8-FFA4-B99F-624AFBEDFC84, 6D0C7764-FFDA-FFEB-07AA-F89AFCE8F98A
Subreddit
tarantulas
Topic's main category
Category:Theraphosidae
UBio ID
5553422
UMLS CUI
C1254302
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
01777391-n
World Spider Catalog ID
urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0010
YSO ID
9546
Yale LUX ID
concept/e97f65f4-e815-41b5-88d7-816ad1956606

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 138
Poecilotheria, Paratropididae, Chilobrachys, Ephebopus, Pterinochilus, Acanthoscurria, Chaetopelma, Lasiodora +130 more
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Different from 1
tarantella
Instance of 1
taxon
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Parent taxon 1
Theraphosoidea
Taxon rank 1
family
Taxonomic type 1
Theraphosa
Topic's main category 1
Category:Theraphosidae
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Theraphosidae
← FactGrid item ID 1
Sion Mills
← Is a list of 1
list of Theraphosidae species
← Main food source 1
Rana catesbeiana
← Species kept 1
Calgary Zoo
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Summary

Theraphosidae is a taxon[1].

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  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → tarantulas
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: tarantulas, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289961428|tarantulas (#289961428)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Taxonomic type → Theraphosa
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Theraphosidae
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ YSO ID: 9546, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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