Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named ...

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Early Miocene to Recent, Europe, North America, North Africa, Indo-Pacific. Intertidal to mid-shelf muddy sands to shell gravels - infaunal. E. nummuliticum Peron & Gauthier, 1885 and E. dubium Peron ...

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Season: all year round. Usually found outdoors on walls, fencing and clutter around the garden, but most common in homes in autumn when males leave their webs to search for female spiders. Also common ...