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Tarantulas are a group of hairy and often very large spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae.

Contents

• Fiction
• Film
• Music
• Albums
• Songs
• Ships
• Other uses
• See also

Tarantula may also refer to:

Fiction

• Tarantulas (Transformers), a character in Beast Wars: Transformers
• Tarantula (Dylan book), a book of poetry by Bob Dylan
• Tarantula (novel), a crime novel by Thierry Jonquet
• Tarantula (DC Comics), the name of two different characters from DC Comics
• Tarantula (Marvel Comics), the name of a number of villains from Marvel Comics

Music

• The Tarantulas, a surf guitar band
• Tarantula (band), a Portuguese heavy metal band
• Tarantulas Records, a record label

Ships

• Tarantula, a 1902 steam yacht converted into the World War I torpedo boat HMCS Tuna
• Tarantula, a 1913 steam yacht converted into a World War I patrol boat

Other uses

• Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070), an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

See also

• Atypical tarantula, spiders of the family Atypidae
• Dwarf tarantula, spiders of the family Mecicobothriidae
• Lycosa tarantula , a species of wolf spider native to Taranto, Italy
• Tarantella, a traditional dance associated with the spider
• Tarantism, a dancing mania associated with Lycosa tarantula and the tarantella

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