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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 236880" data-attributes="member: 49228">Meet Esqueleta, The True Skeleton Tarantula, also known as Ephebopus murinus! Her kind come from the humid forests of northern Brazil, French Guiana, and Suriname.  There, they live in intricate, multi pronged underground silk lined tunnels. They are well adapted to tunnel life. It shows in their anatomy. True Skeleton Tarantulas have bulky, extra strong number 1 and 2 leg pairs oriented towards their front. These are great for capturing and overpowering prey, at the mouth of their burrow. Their numbers 3 and 4 leg pairs are oriented to the side and the rear, respectively. This allows the spider to grip the sides of the tunnel to support the tarantula on those two pair while they use their first two pair for prey. This allows them to hoist up their prey and drag them down into their burrow to consume. They have urticating hairs, like most New World Tarantulas. Theirs is more highly adapted to tunnel life as they also have them on their pedipalps. They can throw urticating hairs at a threat they are facing, while they defend their burrow. True Skeleton Tarantulas get their name for their gorgeous high contrast jet black base color on their legs with bright white “boning” stripes going down the center of their length. These tunnel dwellers are rarely seen on the surface of their habitat. That is why it seams so special when you actually do see them out, like I did with Miss Esquelita on the day I took these photos. I hope you find her as beautiful as I do. [ATTACH=full]75434[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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