Complete Scientific Names

[unclechewy]

Over the holidays, I had many discussion with family about my new hobby and the question came up as to the difference between tarantulas and true spiders, I sited many of the threads I have read here, but my brother-in-law wanted to know where in the whole kingdon, phylum, family, order, genus, species (not sure if this is correct, been a long time since I had a science class), they split off. I did a search here, but didn't find a thread. I'm sure there is someone out there that could give me the complete scientific name for both a tarantula and a true spider. My brother-in-law thanks you

 

[xhexdx]

The only thing I can offer is the Branch order...Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

I'm guessing the split is in family, but that's just a guess.

Here's a decent link to start out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_taxonomy

Tarantula taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Suborder: Mygalomorphae

Superfamily: Theraphosoidea

Family: Theraphosidae

Black Window taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Family: Theridiidae

Daddy Long Legs taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Suborder: Araneomorphae

Superfamily: Pholcoidea

Family: Pholcidae

Those three branch out at family. Not sure about others at the moment...

Hope this helps!

 

[GOMER113]

I can only help with a small portion of what you asked. I don't know where true spiders and tarantulas branch off, but to begin...

The way I learned to remember it is: Kings Play Chess On Funny Green Squares. For example, OBT is:

Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Arthropoda
Class - Arachnida
Order - Araneae
Family - Theraphosidae
Genus - Pterinochilus
Species - Murinus

 

[reclusa]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species.
It may help you to remember the order of the groups with: "King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti."

This site may help: http://museumvictoria.com.au/spidersparlour/ed1.htm

Thanks,

John

 

[Truff135]

Wow, you guys remember a lot more from school than I did LOL. Seems to me, from what I read here, that they would split off at family?

 

[xhexdx]

Just thought I'd post a few more while I'm bored. Heh.

Brown Recluse taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Family: Sicariidae

Funnelweb taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Suborder: Mygalomorphae

Family: Hexathelidae

Wolf spider taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Superfamily: Lycosoidea

Family: Lycosidae

 

[xhexdx]

Wow, you guys remember a lot more from school than I did LOL. Seems to me, from what I read here, that they would split off at family?

Everything I've found indicates they split at family, yes.

 

[unclechewy]

Ok, so do all tarantulas belong to the same family? Theraphosidae?

 

[Truff135]

That, I'm 99% sure is yes. Everything I've read on more than one site indicates that tarantulas all belong to the theraphosidae family. Now whether or not those sites were correct...that's another story.

 

[Travis K]

Nice

Very Informative,
Thx

 

[unclechewy]

As quoted from wikipedia: Tarantula is the common name for a group of "hairy" and often very large spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae, of which approximately 900 species have been identified.

Man am I bored today, nothing better to do than look this stuff up.

 

[xhexdx]

As quoted from wikipedia: Tarantula is the common name for a group of "hairy" and often very large spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae, of which approximately 900 species have been identified.

Man am I bored today, nothing better to do than look this stuff up.

I'm getting paid to do it (slow day today), so I can't complain!

 

[Truff135]

As quoted from wikipedia: Tarantula is the common name for a group of "hairy" and often very large spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae, of which approximately 900 species have been identified.

Man am I bored today, nothing better to do than look this stuff up.

Ah don't feel bad...I spent a good portion of my day looking for a new T to buy (and about 5 minutes looking up troll doll pictures ).

 

[unclechewy]

Ah don't feel bad...I spent a good portion of my day looking for a new T to buy (and about 5 minutes looking up troll doll pictures ).

Didn't say I felt bad about it. I spend many days looking for the next T I want.

Back to the original purpose of this thread. Here is a great link that shows all the species of tarnatulas from wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Theraphosidae_species#Acanthopelminae

 

[PhormictopusMan]

Everything I've found indicates they split at family, yes.

True spiders (Araneomorphs) branch off from Mygalomorphs at sub-order. "Mygals" which are composed of four families include the family Theraphosidae which are what most people in the American side hobby refer to as Tarantulas. Other families in the Mygalomorph sub-order include Ctenizidae which are your trap-door spiders, and then there is the Nemesiidae (formerly Dipluridae) family which has in its ranks the currently popular Calisoga longitarsus among others. Sydney funnelweb spider is also in Nemesiidae family. There are some who consider any spider in the sub-order mygalomorphae, to be tarantulas. Others feel that only those within the family Theraphosidae may have that distinction. Either way, the seperation between "Tarantulas" and "Truespiders is made before family at the sub-order level.

--Chris