Spider ID please

[moosenoose]

Found this fun little number in the bush yesterday. It wasn't over-joyed at me finding it either :lol:

Can someone give me an idea as to what it is??

 

[salebrosus]

Hideous Moosey!

 

[slim6y]

It stole your money

picture number three is pretty much telling you to give it more and stop being stingey!!

 

[Rache]

Looks a bit like a Wolf Spider to me....

 

[moosenoose]

Arooooooooooo I would have put down 20cents but I wanted it to look bigger!

No, it was a reasonable sized spider, and very aggressive. Standing on its rear legs and you could hear it going the chomp on my snake hook.

I don't have any spider books at my disposal. I tried a little bit on the net to ID it, so then I thought I'd try here. Spiders really aren't my thing

 

[melgalea]

hehe how did u get it to lay on its back. lol

 

[Sturdy]

stents bird eater maybe..... just a guess.

 

[salebrosus]

I figure anything on its rear legs is a Funnel Web Spider.

Nasty looking animal.

 

[redbellybite]

could it be a mouse spider?........what ever it is ,it gives me the shivers....

 

[salebrosus]

Me too redbelly, nothing good can come from being bitten by something like that. I would still think its one of the many species of Funnel Web

 

[salebrosus]

http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/dangerous/funnelweb/identifying.htm

 

[Lozza]

looks like a tree funnel web

 

[Stark]

Male Funnel web?

 

[grimbeny]

Funnel web in melbourne??? doesnt sound right to me

 

[salebrosus]

grim there are a number of species of funnel web spider. There are southern tree funnel webs that you get in Victoria. There is even a species of funnel web found on Fraser Island. It's the Sydney Funnel Web (males) that have caused all the recorded deaths from Funnel Web species, prior to the introduction of antivenene.

 

[moosenoose]

I suspect it may have been a funnel-web, there is a species of them in the Dandenong ranges, but I was nowhere near there....that and I'm useless at spider ID without some desent reference materials

 

[fraser888]

not nice lol

 

[KaaTom]

My first thought was a Funnel Web too but Im definately no expert.........

 

[bundy_zigg]

what a magnificent spider, good find

 

[manksy]

i'd say wolf spider- i live in shepparton vic and play with them in the back yard all the time
they tend ot live in/around water