New Species - Hmmm is it really? Guess what WHO KNOWS - Controversial Thread enter at your own risk

[AzJohn]

http://www.atshq.org/articles/found.html
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Thanks, I feel kind of stupid for not knowing that. I sent Brent an e-mail. hopefully I'll be sending him a pair of tarantuas soon.


John

 

[cacoseraph]

woohoo!






i suspect that Brent is the only real way we have even a prayer of knowing what all our local species are. or.. not even knowing what they are... but knowing there is a crap ton of species we never even knew about


of course, i don't really think this is a situation unique to Aphonopelma. i suspect that when genescreening comes into play a lot of morphologicallyl "identical" specimens will turn out to be cryptically different. it sucks, but i would MUCH rather know the grim truth than live in a sugary lie!

 

[Bill S]

The interesting thing is it is from Bill S... but from a different town in AZ. are there two Bill Sesses? i don't know =P

Nope, just one - and one is enough.

I used to live in Tucson, but built a house out here in the desert just outside of Vail (which is just outside of Tucson). Left the profile as it was on this board - figured nobody had ever heard of Vail (we only got our first stoplight a couple years ago, and our first paved intersection a couple years before that.)

 

[AzJohn]

woohoo!






i suspect that Brent is the only real way we have even a prayer of knowing what all our local species are. or.. not even knowing what they are... but knowing there is a crap ton of species we never even knew about


of course, i don't really think this is a situation unique to Aphonopelma. i suspect that when genescreening comes into play a lot of morphologicallyl "identical" specimens will turn out to be cryptically different. it sucks, but i would MUCH rather know the grim truth than live in a sugary lie!

At least one of my unknown species might get IDed. We really need to make more of an effort in IDing species for the good of the hobby. Look at G rosea. They have a reputation of being tough to breed. Maybe we just have several similar species in the hobby. Avics are also going to be a mess.

John