#4402 · 🕷️ spiders & kin
Dark Fishing Spider
Dolomedes tenebrosus
🕷️ Spiders & kin 📍 outside Europe
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Dolomedes tenebrosus or dark fishing spider is a fishing spider found in the USA and Canada.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 51,531 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1844 (182 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dark Fishing Spider
- scientific name
- Dolomedes tenebrosus
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Dolomedidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 51,531
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1844 by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
relatives· Dolomedidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 82117, Wikidata Q289663, GBIF 2150903, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.