Spiders occur in a large range of sizes. The smallest, dwarf spiders of the subfamily Erig

oninae, are less than 1 mm (about .05 inches) in body length. The largest and heaviest spiders occur among tarantulas, which can have body lengths up to 90 mm (about 3.5 inches) and leg spans up to 250 mm (about 10 inches).

Posted By: Tombs on October 21st 2008 at 11:34:47

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To take your minds off tonight (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:14:12
- Here we go. I knew this'd get into the intricacies of taxonomy eventually. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 12:02:15
  - Why ? Is there a phylum about it ? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 21, 12:05:34
- Amoeba (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 21, 11:54:42
- cats (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:52:21
- snakes (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:50:06
- birds (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:39:17
  - no chance (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:43:01
    - I still think the spider ratio is greater, mass-wise (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:51:21
      - Jewkun itya ? Hare gew (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Oct 21, 11:59:08
        
        Roight (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 12:01:34
        
        can you stop carping on about this on the web? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 12:12:41
        
        For fucks hake. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 12:15:14
        
        Language, Timobream (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 12:21:57
        
        I think you've just invalided yourself out of contributing to future fish-pun threads. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 12:24:26
        
        No chance. (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 12:27:38
      - I'm a bit worried about how loose we're being on the species-definition thing (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:56:25
        
        That's what I'm talking about (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:59:10
    - The smallest fish can swim up your winkle if you pee in the Amazon. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Oct 21, 11:45:10
    - yebbut fish smell (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:44:24
      - Can you eat their heads? (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:52:29
        
        me personally? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:55:39
      - Not if you clean them with lemon bleach first (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:45:31
        
        really? (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:48:41
- Spiders occur in a large range of sizes. The smallest, dwarf spiders of the subfamily Erig (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:34:47
  - I rest my case, m'lud (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:54:39
    - I'd hate that (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 12:03:21
- fish (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:33:46
  - Yes. Good call pants (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:36:57
    - Fish is not a genus (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:56:22
- an elephant when born is smaller than a emu but it grows up to be bigger than a horses (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:24:16
  - there's a island where a horses only comes up to your thigh though. They're like (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:35:04
    - that was a dog in a shellsuit (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:46:56
    - What a load of old pony (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:35:53
- dogs (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:21:09
  - but a tarantula must be at least a hundred times bigger than a money spider (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 21, 11:24:18
    - i'd say 9 times bigger (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 11:29:39
  - sometimes they get stuck together backwards. I saw it on a hill in Dunvant, South Wales - (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:22:33
- Football fans from Hong Kong. (General Chat) - camcan, Oct 21, 11:19:36
  - ..they're cute and they're cuddly and they're ready to please (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:20:55
    - aren't little trees japanese? (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Oct 21, 11:54:42
      - tres Japanese we shatem (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 12:21:43
      - Nope they gone done nicked it off the Chinese (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 12:11:11
      - i thought that the last time he posted it (General Chat) - blindasabat, Oct 21, 12:07:48
    - Racist (n/m) (General Chat) - Holden Caulfield, Oct 21, 11:34:37
- Whales (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Oct 21, 11:18:56
  - That's John Prescott (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:39:32
  - I'd love to see a one-inch whale (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:22:52
- Arachnid probably big? (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 21, 11:15:52
  - Officer Bob (General Chat) - pants, Oct 21, 11:32:28
  - Good grief! (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Oct 21, 11:17:03

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