00:00The male of the new species, it's a lot larger.
00:15Leg span's up to 9, 9.5 centimetres I think we're about now is one of the records.
00:20The abdomen's a lot bigger, the legs are a lot thicker, the copulatory organs are a lot
00:24bigger as well.
00:26It's just an all over bigger spider and there are some little slight colour variations which
00:31can happen in the other Sydney funnel web as well, but they even move slightly different.
00:35It's again something you might not pick up if you saw it once or twice, but when you
00:38see them every single day it is definitely noticeable.
00:41When we go collecting them, this is about the size we're expecting.
00:45It's amazing.
00:46This size is still capable of killing someone my size, so very medically significant.
00:52Now when we look at it and you see the size of this one next to it, it's substantially
00:57larger, so it's extremely exciting.
01:01The funnel web antivenom will work across the board.
01:04The one that the Australian Reptile Park makes from the Sydney funnel web works across all
01:08species of funnel web, so there's nothing to worry about there.
01:12This particular spider is a lot larger.
01:14Its venom glands are a lot larger and its fangs are a lot longer, so there is a possibility
01:18for possibly a deeper penetration through gloves possibly and also the venom glands
01:25are larger, so there's a chance there might be more venom injected.
01:28Now we have it confirmed that it is a different species, there's a whole bunch to learn about
01:33it.
01:34They have been found primarily at night, the same as most other male funnel webs would
01:37be.
01:38Sometimes you might find them in a garage or in a bedroom or somewhere in the house
01:41where they might have wandered in during the night and then they get sprung the next morning
01:46when the people are out and about moving, you pick up a towel or a sheet off the floor
01:49or some shoes and the little male has been hiding there overnight.
01:53I would not recommend touching them, that's for sure.
01:55They do give copious amounts of venom.
01:57When I was extracting venom from these ones, they do give a lot of venom, so yeah, definitely
02:02not a hands-on.
02:03It's just not often you find something that's visible to the naked eye, living in suburbia
02:07around a lot of people and their houses to actually be found out that it is something
02:13that's new to what we now know.
02:15That's amazing.
02:16I think that's so exciting and it's refreshing and it's time to start working on learning
02:20more about this spider.
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