A new species of spider found only on one island in Queensland, Australia was named after the British naturalist and celebrated TV broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. The prethopalpus attenboroughi spider is just over one millimetre in length and exists only on Horn Island in the Torres Strait in Queensland.
The spider was discovered and described by Queensland Museum research fellow Barbara Baehr and WA Museum head of terrestrial zoology Professor Mark Harvey. Prethopalpus is commonly known as a goblin spider.
It is not the first time a species has been named after Sir David as earlier a fossil of a fish that existed 380 million years ago was named Materpiscis attenboroughi.
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