Tarantula

Tarantulas comprise a group o muckle an eften hairy arachnids belanging tae the Theraphosidae faimily o speeders, o which approximately 900 species hae been identifee'd.

Tarantula
Mexican redknee tarantula
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Cless:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Faimily:	Theraphosidae Thorell, 1870
Subfaimilies
Acanthopelminae Aviculariinae Eumenophorinae Harpactirinae Ischnocolinae Ornithoctoninae Poecilotheriinae Selenocosmiinae Selenogyrinae Spelopelminae Stromatopelminae Theraphosinae Thrigmopoeinae
Diversity
123 genera, 931 species