Other Exotic Pets - Arachnids This page contains links to websites about reptiles in South Africa, in the category of "Other Exotic Pets - Arachnids", that we have found to date. Please feel free to advise any incorrect allocations or descriptions and to request any additional links. Note : By default all links open in new window. |
Other Exotic Pets - Arachnids
This page contains links to websites about reptiles in South Africa, in the category of "Other Exotic Pets - Arachnids", that we have found to date.
Please feel free to advise any incorrect allocations or descriptions and to request any additional links.
Note : By default all links open in new window.
Index to this
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Clubs ,
Forums ,
Indigenous Spiders & Scorpions ,
Traders ,
The Spider Club of Southern Africa is a non-profit-making environmental interest group. Our aim is to encourage and develop an interest in arachnids, including spiders, scorpions, solifuges, whipspiders, harvestmen and pseudo scorpions, and to promote this interest and the study of these animals by all suitable means.
The African Arachnida Database (AFRAD) is an expert information system on the African Arachnida - an umbrella project dedicated to the unification and enhancement of biosystematic research on arachnids in Africa and adjacent islands. It is committed to help conserve the biological diversity of African arachnids through the improvement of scientific knowledge. Like the insects and spiders, scorpions belong to the phylum Arthropoda and like the spiders they belong to the class Arachnida but belong to a different order, Scorpiones. See arachnid classification table. Scorpions are a diverse group of arachnids and include 16 families, 159 genera with 1260 described species worldwide. Spiders rank seventh in global diversity and are an important predatory group of terrestrial animals. Presently about 40 000 species have been described globally and this is estimated to increase to 170 000. South Africa has a rich fauna and 67 families are known from the region. South African Museum
Dr Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman is a Specialist Scientist at the ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Spider Research Centre, Pretoria
Arachnides - Comming soon on their web site. Our goal is to provide you with quality, healthy, reasonably priced tarantulas, scorpions, and other invertebrates.
Check the "Tarantulas" Link for new tarantulas for sale! Situated at the Plant Yard, Hyperama, van Riebeek Street, Edenvale . Have various snakes( inc Venomous), lizards, spiders and accessories.
Last update : 28/02/2008
Clubs
The Spider Club of Southern Africa (SCSA)
Forums
Forum : Tarantulas.co.za ( discussion and care sheets)
Indigenous Spiders & Scorpions
African Arachnida Database (AFRAD)
Scorpions - by South African Museum
South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA)
Spiderweb - About spiders of RSA
Many different spider species occur in your garden and home. Only a couple are venomous and pose a possible threat to man. This site aims to acquaint you with the more common spiders in southern Africa for which the South African Museum is regularly approached for identification.
The baboon spiders of South Africa
Also see: Baboon and trapdoor spiders: an identification manual.
The Spider guide of Southern Africa.
Traders
Birdspiders.co.za - Trader in spiders
Outragious Pets - Edenvale
Reptilians Petshop - William Nicol Drive
SA Inverts
Wild Island Pets - Gauteng
Contact: :J.P. 082 466 7341 Ronny: 082 791 5497 Tel :(011) 454 5286
X Pet - Gauteng