Mr Christensen added: ‘Atrax christenseni is a superb and impressive funnel-web. The sheer size of the males, compared to the males of the other Atrax species, is simply astounding.

Banner image of Newcastle funnel-web spider, courtesy of Kane Christensen. This article was originally published on Mongabay.

Christensen warned residents about the potential danger of these spiders venturing into homes. "You can sometimes find them in a garage, bedroom, or somewhere else in the house, especially if they ...

Kane Christensen. The original single species of Sydney funnel-web is named Atrax robustus, and grows up to 1.6 inches in length. The researchers describe in the paper how they used DNA analysis ...

Atrax christenseni owes its name to Kane Christensen, a Central Coast spider enthusiast who first brought the Newcastle ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" and was first discovered in the early 2000s near Newcastle, 170 km (105 miles) north of Sydney, by Kane Christensen, a spider ...

(Kane Christensen) The habitat of A. robustus itself is focused around the Sydney area, as far north as the Central Coast, south to the Georges River, and west to the Baulkam Hills area, ...

They are named after Kane Christensen, the former head of spiders at the Australian Reptile Park. He first described this variant in the early 2000s and nicknamed them “big boys ...

The study was launched after Mr Christensen, based at the Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales, collected a number of “unusually large male funnel-web spiders” as part of a venom ...

To show how much Kane's work meant to us, we have called it Atrax christenseni. We named it after him," Smith said. Christensen was delighted at this turn of events.