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Mastophora dizzydeani
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Mastophora dizzydeani

Mastophora dizzydeani is a species of spider named after baseball player Dizzy Dean. It uses a sticky ball on the end of a thread of webbing to catch its prey.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 519658.