Tasmanian cave spider

English

Noun

Tasmanian cave spider (plural Tasmanian cave spiders)

  1. A species of large-clawed spider, Hickmania troglodytes, found in Tasmania.
    • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 25:
      Quilty told me that some of the flora I may have noticed in the Andes were to be found elsewhere only in Tasmania [] and that insects like the Tasmanian cave spider were the sole family known outside Chile.
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