MIAMI, Fla. – Florida’s population of creepy crawlers just got a new addition — sort of. Zoo Miami announced Friday in a news release that a member of its staff had helped to identify a new species of trapdoor spider, the Pine Rockland Trapdoor Spider — also known as Ummidia richmond by the scientific community. [TRENDING: Fla.
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The keeper shared a photo with the conservation and research department at the zoo, but it did not match any existing records for