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Photo credits & image licences.

Every live species photograph is a real sourced image. This page records the creator, reuse licence and source.

67licensed real photographs
No AI species images are used in the live species library. The 67 licensed photographs are sourced under licences that permit reuse, with attribution and source links recorded below.
Acanthoscurria geniculata

Acanthoscurria geniculata

Credit: PavelSI

Licence: CC0

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Aphonopelma anax

Aphonopelma anax

Credit: Chris A. Hamilton, Brent E. Hendrixson, Jason E. Bond

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Aphonopelma bicoloratum

Aphonopelma bicoloratum

Credit: Milan08Studio

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Aphonopelma chalcodes

Aphonopelma chalcodes

Credit: Ondřej Řehák, Czech Republic

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0

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Aphonopelma moderatum

Aphonopelma moderatum

Credit: (c) Turner Brockman, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Aphonopelma seemanni

Aphonopelma seemanni

Credit: Micha L. Rieser

Licence: Attribution

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Brachypelma emilia

Brachypelma emilia

Credit: (c) Francisco Farriols Sarabia, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Brachypelma hamorii

Brachypelma hamorii

Credit: no rights reserved

Licence: CC0 1.0

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Brachypelma klaasi

Brachypelma klaasi

Credit: George Chernilevsky

Licence: Public domain

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Caribena versicolor

Caribena versicolor

Credit: (c) Matteo Bellucci, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Ceratogyrus brachycephalus

Ceratogyrus brachycephalus

Credit: Daveyp1970

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Ceratogyrus darlingi

Ceratogyrus darlingi

Credit: no rights reserved

Licence: CC0 1.0

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Ceratogyrus marshalli

Ceratogyrus marshalli

Credit: (c) Mark Liptrot, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Chilobrachys fimbriatus

Chilobrachys fimbriatus

Credit: Tom M.

Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens

Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens

Credit: Didier Descouens

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cyriocosmus aueri

Cyriocosmus aueri

Credit: Sebastian Doak

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Cyriocosmus elegans

Cyriocosmus elegans

Credit: B a y L e e ' s 8 Legged Art

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0

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Cyriocosmus perezmilesi

Cyriocosmus perezmilesi

Credit: Morkelsker

Licence: Public domain

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Ephebopus cyanognathus

Ephebopus cyanognathus

Credit: No machine-readable author provided. Michael.Negrini assumed (based on copyright claims).

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0

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Ephebopus uatuman

Ephebopus uatuman

Credit: Burntclaw15

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Grammostola grossa

Grammostola grossa

Credit: Galak76 19:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0

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Grammostola iheringi

Grammostola iheringi

Credit: Burntclaw15

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Grammostola pulchra

Grammostola pulchra

Credit: B a y L e e ' s 8 Legged Art

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0

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Grammostola rosea

Grammostola rosea

Credit: (c) Gabriela Cartes, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Hapalopus formosus

Hapalopus formosus

Credit: SpectralHauntings

Licence: CC0

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Heteroscodra maculata

Heteroscodra maculata

Credit: Www.universoaracnido.com

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.5

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Lasiodora klugi

Lasiodora klugi

Credit: (c) petersparks, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Monocentropus balfouri

Monocentropus balfouri

Credit: B a y L e e ' s 8 Legged Art

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0

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Neoholothele incei

Neoholothele incei

Credit: Www.universoaracnido.com

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.5

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Nhandu cerradensis

Nhandu cerradensis

Credit: Tsssss

Licence: CC0

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Hapalopus planetearth

Hapalopus planetearth

Image: AI-generated reference image approved by The Tarantula Den.

External licence: None required; this is not a third-party stock or Creative Commons photograph.

Use: Visual species illustration for the site hero and care guide.

Nhandu coloratovillosus

Nhandu coloratovillosus

Credit: no rights reserved

Licence: CC0 1.0

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Omothymus violaceopes

Omothymus violaceopes

Credit: Stefan Walkowski

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Phormictopus auratus

Phormictopus auratus

Credit: Stephan van Helden

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Poecilotheria formosa

Poecilotheria formosa

Credit: B a y L e e ' s 8 Legged Art

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0

Changes: Resized and converted to JPEG for web display; aspect ratio preserved.

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Poecilotheria metallica

Poecilotheria metallica

Credit: B a y L e e ' s 8 Legged Art

Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0

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Poecilotheria miranda

Poecilotheria miranda

Credit: Centre for Biodiversity Genomics / BOLD Systems

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Changes: Cropped to the dorsal specimen; resized and converted to JPEG for web display.

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Poecilotheria ornata

Poecilotheria ornata

Credit: Logan Stecker

Licence: CC0

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Poecilotheria regalis

Poecilotheria regalis

Credit: Harsha Jayaramaiah

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Poecilotheria rufilata

Poecilotheria rufilata

Credit: no rights reserved

Licence: CC0 1.0

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Poecilotheria subfusca

Poecilotheria subfusca

Credit: (c) Pieter Prins, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Psalmopoeus cambridgei

Psalmopoeus cambridgei

Credit: Charles J. Sharp

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Psalmopoeus irminia

Psalmopoeus irminia

Credit: Micha L. Rieser

Licence: Attribution

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Psalmopoeus pulcher

Psalmopoeus pulcher

Credit: Brian Gratwicke

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Psalmopoeus reduncus

Psalmopoeus reduncus

Credit: (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Psalmopoeus victori

Psalmopoeus victori

Credit: Quengsalinas

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Pterinochilus murinus

Pterinochilus murinus

Credit: Антимонов Сергей

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Theraphosa apophysis

Theraphosa apophysis

Credit: (c) Nolan Exe, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Theraphosa blondi

Theraphosa blondi

Credit: (c) Guillaume Delaitre, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Theraphosa stirmi

Theraphosa stirmi

Credit: (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Tliltocatl albopilosus

Tliltocatl albopilosus

Credit: (c) Court Harding, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

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Tliltocatl kahlenbergi

Tliltocatl kahlenbergi

Credit: Fungus Guy

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Tliltocatl schroederi

Tliltocatl schroederi

Credit: Eugenio Padilla

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Tliltocatl vagans

Tliltocatl vagans

Credit: Zygy

Licence: CC0

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Tliltocatl verdezi

Tliltocatl verdezi

Credit: User:MrKevin04

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0

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Xenesthis immanis

Xenesthis immanis

Credit: (c) José Gabriel Julio Guzmán, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Changes: Resized and converted to JPEG for web display; aspect ratio preserved.

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Xenesthis intermedia

Xenesthis intermedia

Credit: The Spider Shop

Rights: Product photograph used in the local build; permission must be confirmed before public deployment.

Changes: No compositional edits.

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