Acanthoscurria gomesiana Mello-Leitão, 1923 is a animal in the Theraphosidae family, order Araneae, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Acanthoscurria gomesiana Mello-Leitão, 1923
Acanthoscurria gomesiana is a 1923-discovered Brazilian tarantula that produces biologically active gomesin peptides.
Acanthoscurria gomesiana is a species of tarantula spider. This species was first identified in Brazil in 1923 by Mello-Leitão. It is known to produce gomesin peptides, a class of proteins that have been found to have both anti-tumour and anti-microbial properties.
Photo: (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
Tliltocatl epicureanus (Chamberlin, 1925)
Aphonopelma marxi (Simon, 1891)
Chaetopelma olivaceum (C.L.Koch, 1841)
Aphonopelma armada (Chamberlin, 1940)
Aphonopelma eutylenum Chamberlin, 1940
Tliltocatl kahlenbergi (Rudloff, 2008)
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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