Please identify this spider found in Sacramento, California.?

Question

I found a huge spider in my bathroom tonight. It was about 1" long. Being paranoid it was poisonous, my buddy killed it but I still got some good pictures. Here are the links:

>http://picasaweb.google.com/kmazzone/Spider/photo#5223104615362109666>

http://picasaweb.google.com/kmazzone/Spider/photo#5223104629862202946

http://picasaweb.google.com/kmazzone/Spider/photo#5223104635744338194

Thanks!

Answer 1

That is definitely a wolf or fishing spider. They are relatively harmless, and wolf spiders are more tarantula than spider, given that their fangs go up and down and not side to side. Wolf spiders also do not have webs, and that spider probably is more of a hunter than of a wait to catch prey type. They are common everywhere, and can be found all over California in the grass. I have caught a lot of them, and I found once a wolf spider as big as a child's hand. Probably a different species tho.

Answer 2

It is hard to tell with that photo, especially since the spider is deceased.  

Looking at the spinnerets, I don't think it is a wolf spider though.    I think it is a kind of gnaphosid ground spider like a Parsons spider.

http://bugguide.net/node/view/2041

Also, Wolf spiders are not mygalomorphs, which have forward swinging stabbing fangs like the tarantulas, they have pinching fangs that "go side to side", making them Araenomorph.