Haha, but gee, last time I checked, the nomenclature was supposed to be in the Latin tradition. lol. Its the only place we use Latin at all -- besides in the practice of medicine and the practice of law anymore. They probably wouldn't have said ' Aphonopelma ' if they hand't been stuck with it. They could have at LEAST said cashi as opposed to johnnycashi - it would have been a bit more dignified, dont you think?
Gee, and to think that I get to do a redirect page on wikipedia for this, and then some individual whom knows nothing about spiders is going to get into an edit war over it. Priceless.At least they used genitive.
i mean its kinda a dead language so we cant really do much with the little we have imo... but some of them are interesting...in the aspect of somone thought "wouldnt it be bada** to name the Aptostichus we found Bonoi because we love bono?"
On the other hand, nomenclature isn't Latin, it's just latinized and full of words of all possible origins. English surnames are common part of it since 19th century. But I agree that this way of using both firstname and surname is a bit unfortunate.
Because whoever discovered the species named it as such. That's why you see unusual names like Megaphobema peterklaasi, Heteropoda davidbowie, etc...
I believe it's Avicularia rickwesti, I am not 100% on that.
It's a black tarantula found in the area of the Folsom prison in California. This one actually makes sense.
I think B. klaasi is also named after Peter Klaas.
Yes it is. Brachypelma klaasi (Schmidt & Krause, 1994) is nice example how it should look.
And sings about how you're going to "cry,cry,cry" when you stick your hand in his tank.This species if kept in captivity and escape will be easily found in your bath room popping meds or in your liquor cabinet.
It has changed to Antillena rickwesti IIRC.
I think Danzig is happy, for that 0.1 Ephebopus murinus honoured well his 'Skeleton' Misfits days costume.I won't rest untill we a Pamphobeteus danzigi.. I mean it just rolls of the tongue so well.. Just go ahead and say it you'll see..And Danzig I mean come on...It's Danzig