Thirteen new spider species discovered in Queensland

By Inga Ting
Updated July 28 2015 - 3:30pm, first published 3:00pm
A curtain web spider, one of 18 new species of spider discovered at Fish River Station in the NT. Picture: R.WHYTE
A curtain web spider, one of 18 new species of spider discovered at Fish River Station in the NT. Picture: R.WHYTE

Thirteen new species of spider – including a brush-footed trapdoor spider – have been discovered on Queensland's Cape York peninsula, on the Indigenous Olkola​ people's traditional lands.

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