Plesker Roland, Berger Jürgen
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 51-59, 63225 Langen, Germany.
Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen, Germany.
Primate Biol. 2020 Sep 4;7(2):13-17. doi: 10.5194/pb-7-13-2020. eCollection 2020.
This report describes a case of unintended importation of tropical baby jumping spiders to a laboratory monkey colony. The spiders were detected in a cocoon attached to a banana for monkey consumption. In identifying the family of spiders as jumping spiders (Salticidae), it turned out that these spiders would not have been venomous to humans and they most likely would not have had the potential to establish a new spider colony in the facility.
本报告描述了一起热带跳蛛意外传入实验室猴群的事件。这些蜘蛛是在一个附着于供猴子食用的香蕉上的茧中被发现的。经鉴定,这些蜘蛛属于跳蛛科(Salticidae),结果表明它们对人类无毒,而且极有可能无法在该设施中建立新的蜘蛛种群。