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Acanthoscurria gomesiana

Acanthoscurria gomesiana

Classification

Order
Araneae

Acanthoscurria gomesiana is a species of tarantula spider first identified in Brazil in 1923. It is known for producing the gomesin peptides, a class of proteins which have found to have anti-tumour and anti-microbial properties.

Distribution

(c) Hector M. O. Gonzalez-Filho, Sylvia M. Lucas, Felipe dos S. Paula, Rafael P. Indicatti, and Antonio D. Brescovit, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 99