Atypoides riversi

{{Short description|Species of spider}}

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| image = Atypoides riversi turret (Marshal Hedin).jpg

| image_caption = Atypoides riversi turret

| taxon = Atypoides riversi

| authority = O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883

| synonyms = Antrodiaetus riversi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883)

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Atypoides riversi, known as turret spider, is a species of mygalomorph spider in the family Antrodiaetidae.{{cite web |title=Taxon details Atypoides riversi O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1883 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/1846 |accessdate=2020-07-16 }} It is a medium-sized spider native to Northern California{{cite journal | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03164.x | doi=10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03164.x | title=Multilocus genealogies reveal multiple cryptic species and biogeographical complexity in the California turret spider Antrodiaetus riversi (Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae) | year=2006 | last1=Starrett | first1=James | last2=Hedin | first2=Marshal | journal=Molecular Ecology | volume=16 | issue=3 | pages=583–604 | pmid=17257115 | s2cid=20761006 }}{{cite journal | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.12130 | doi=10.1111/mec.12130 | title=Crossing the uncrossable: Novel trans-valley biogeographic patterns revealed in the genetic history of low-dispersal mygalomorph spiders (Antrodiaetidae, Antrodiaetus) from California | year=2013 | last1=Hedin | first1=Marshal | last2=Starrett | first2=James | last3=Hayashi | first3=Cheryl | journal=Molecular Ecology | volume=22 | issue=2 | pages=508–526 | pmid=23205500 | s2cid=206179479 }} that constructs a burrow with a turret made of soil, vegetation and silk.{{Cite journal|url=http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/psyche/75/75-157.html|title=The Mygalomorph Spider Genus Atypoides (Araneae: Antrodiaetidae)|first=Frederick A.|last=Coyle|date=28 March 1968|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=75|issue=2|pages=157–194|doi=10.1155/1968/61854 |accessdate=28 March 2023|via=groups.csail.mit.edu|doi-access=free }} This spider's length is {{convert|13|to|18|mm|in}} long, though females are larger than males.{{cite web |url=http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Turret-Spider |title=Turret Spider |publisher=insectidentification.org }}