Tartarus murdochensis

Tartarus murdochensis is a cave spider from Western Australia, in the family Stiphidiidae.^[2][3] The spider was first described in 1992 by Mike Gray.^[3]

Tartarus murdochensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Stiphidiidae
Genus:	Tartarus
Species:	T. murdochensis
Binomial name
Tartarus murdochensis Gray, 1922
Holotype site (AM KS18430 ♀): Phyllistine Flattener Cave (6N194), Hampton Tableland, Nullarbor Plain, WA[1]

Name

The species epithet, murdochensis, refers to it being found in the Murdoch Sink, a submerged cave system in the Nullarbor Plain of Western and Southern Australia.^[3]

Conservation status

In Western Australia, the species is listed as vulnerable.^[4][1]