Please help me ID this spider

[JayzunBoget]

Someone brought in this spider to the pet store I work at in Lansing, MI; Preuss Pets. They said that it came in a box of carpet that had just been shipped from China. He took pictures of it while it was alive, on his cell phone. When it was alive, it sat in that same weird jumbled-leg posture that the local wolf spiders use.
Anybody know what this is? Is it from China, or did it move into the carpet box right here in MI.
Thanx, JZ

 

[JayzunBoget]

woops

It would probably be easier to ID if you could actually see it.:wall:

 

[lhystrix]

Looks like one of your local Dolomedes sp.

 

[JayzunBoget]

Thanx, Jeff, that was the clue I needed. It does indeed appear to be a Dark Fishing Spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus).
Interestingly enough, the person who brought me the spider was convinced that it was some Chinese species and I only mentioned that it might actually be native as a possibility.
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