This was covered by @AphonopelmaTX's post in that the morphological classification doesn't see enough differentiation to label them as different species at this time, but genetic analysis may show them to be their own species. The 'morphotypes' of A. avicularia are basically pending further review, so "hobby" breeding lines should remain distinct until that review occurs.
Well put, i see now @viper69 , its basically a pending process until the DNA research is done.
I wonder if the yellow on the shioedtei slings is from a "lethal recessive" gene. In Arabian horses, there is a bizarre lethal recessive gene known as "lavender foal syndrome", these babies die within 24 hours or so of birth and are born with a strange lavender grey hue to their coats.
If it gets done. Their scientists that strictly believe cladistics is enough, and others that don’t.
Does this gold form appear in a approximate 3:1 ratio as does the gold incei, for classical Mendelian genetics for a single recessive gene?
I don't know. Some European on Facebook posted photos of one he had in the past. I suppose it's possible it was missing ided.. but unlikely given who it was.
I had a P. cam once....one hatched by me....that was purple through the juvie stage...when he matured though, he was identical to his brothers.
Now that's pretty cool.. I can share screenshots I have of everything. But I don't think that's allowed here. I
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Science is always a body in motion, ie Change.
Sorry, I meant a a non gmorph with bizarre patterning. Poecilotheria and P irminia more notably ime.
There are 7 morphotypes, right? A. avicularia = m#1, A. braunshauseni = m#2, A. metallica = m#6, but what with the 3, 4, 5 and 7? Do they also have hobby names? I can't find anything about them. What with sp. Boa Vista? Is it also one of those A. avicularia morphotypes?
Not hobby names...these are the old scientific names before the re classification...people just refuse to let go of the names they were so familiar with.
Oh, ok, thank you.
Although you didn't touch on the Avicularia avicularia morphotypes, I do believe your analysis of these is correct....but I don't think aurantica was moved....if I missed that I need to re label...lol.
The paper by Fukushima et. al. from 2017 lists A. aurantiaca as nomen dubium and suggests a possible synonym of A. rufa.
I'm doing my little investigation because I didn't care for Avics for years and suddenly felt in love with them
I'm not going to relabel spiders myself when I buy them. It's better to search for the same name when I decide to breed them to prevent possible hybridisation as much as possible. But if one species is most likely being sold with multiple different names then I'll just stick to one of them. And I still need to read that revision! :O
That's definitely possible. In nomenclature, cf. is short for the latin word conferre, meaning "compare to." So Avicularia cf. aurantiaca means it's a spider known to be within genus Avicularia and has a lot of similarities to A. aurantiaca, but it's not properly confirmed to be that species or not.