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I received this e-mail today after questioning Mr. Vernier about an "Aphonopelma smithi" on his price list. Has anyone here ever heard of such a thing?????
"Take a look at the World Spider catalog at http://www.tarantulas.ru/klas/kp_orig.htm_.
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You will find that both species of Aphonopelma, eutylenum and smithi, were described by Smith in 1995 on different pages
of the same paper. This means they are distinct species.
_
As to common names, the same common often gets attached to more than one tarantula. For that reason and others, the
scientific name is always preferable and the common almost immaterial. We still list the common because we know that many
of our clients still depend upon them but there's not much we can do about preexisting apparent contradictions between names
we did not create other than to emphasize the utility of the scientific one.
_
A. eutylenum and A. smithi are different species regardless of which common name is used.
_
________________________
Darrin Vernier
Golden Phoenix Exotica . com"
"Take a look at the World Spider catalog at http://www.tarantulas.ru/klas/kp_orig.htm_.
_
You will find that both species of Aphonopelma, eutylenum and smithi, were described by Smith in 1995 on different pages
of the same paper. This means they are distinct species.
_
As to common names, the same common often gets attached to more than one tarantula. For that reason and others, the
scientific name is always preferable and the common almost immaterial. We still list the common because we know that many
of our clients still depend upon them but there's not much we can do about preexisting apparent contradictions between names
we did not create other than to emphasize the utility of the scientific one.
_
A. eutylenum and A. smithi are different species regardless of which common name is used.
_
________________________
Darrin Vernier
Golden Phoenix Exotica . com"
