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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
*Identification: Brown gray with white spots forming a longitudinal band on the dorsal abdomen and a red-brown brush of hair on the chelicerae. Large in size (4.5-6cm) with 4-5mm fangs. | |||
**They do not form webs, but rather are mobile nocturnal hunters | |||
**among the largest and most aggressive spiders in South AmericaHabitat restricted to South America, largely Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. | |||
*Genus: Phoneutria | |||
*The best-known representative is P. nigriventer, the Brazilian Wandering Spider | |||
==Venom== | ==Venom== | ||
Revision as of 01:40, 2 August 2021
Background
- Identification: Brown gray with white spots forming a longitudinal band on the dorsal abdomen and a red-brown brush of hair on the chelicerae. Large in size (4.5-6cm) with 4-5mm fangs.
- They do not form webs, but rather are mobile nocturnal hunters
- among the largest and most aggressive spiders in South AmericaHabitat restricted to South America, largely Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
- Genus: Phoneutria
- The best-known representative is P. nigriventer, the Brazilian Wandering Spider
Venom
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Envenomations, bites and stings
- Hymenoptera stings (bees, wasps, ants)
- Mammalian bites
- Closed fist infection (Fight bite)
- Dog bite
- Marine toxins and envenomations
- Toxins (ciguatera, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, scombroid, tetrodotoxin
- Stingers (stingray injury)
- Venomous fish (catfish, zebrafish, scorpion fish, stonefish, cone shells, lionfish, sea urchins)
- Nematocysts (coral reef, fire coral, box jellyfish, sea wasp, portuguese man-of-war, sea anemones)
- Phylum porifera (sponges)
- Bites (alligator/crocodile, octopus, shark)
- Scorpion envenomation
- Reptile envenomation
- Spider bites