Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica

[Cirith Ungol]

This is said to be one, but I have my doubts. The article in question talks about a new list of endangered species and it is estimated that only 500 P.h. still exist in nature.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-35897-2.html

It's easier to take a pic of just some other pokie, "nobody" will know the difference anyway. But has anyone here seen a P.h.?

 

[Zoltan]

Andrew Smith did. (Click)

It would be easier to determine whether it's hanumavilasumica or not from a ventral picture.

 

[GoTerps]

An older thread which may interest you.

CLICK HERE

Eric

 

[Claire Beckett]

Further to GoTerps link, can I direct you to the following:

http://iucn.org/about/work/programme...dies/index.cfm

 

[Zoltan]

Hi Clair,
Your link isn't working for me. Can you post the working one?

 

[Claire Beckett]

http://iucn.org/about/work/programm...pecies_photo_gallery___case_studies/index.cfm

Try this, sorry

Should work, works ok for me but if not the gist is below from the IUCN Red list just updated

"The Rameshwaram Parachute Spider (Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica) is a species of Indian tarantula assessed for the first time and listed as Critically Endangered. Found only on the island of Rameshwaram and nearby mainland, the spider occurs in an area less than 100 km², of which perhaps 6 km² are occupied by this species. The Rameshwaram Parachute Spider lives in palm, casuarina and tamarind plantations, as well as mixed deciduous woodland and sometimes in thatch-roof houses. The total population of this spider is likely to number less than 500 adults. Its natural habitat has almost completely been destroyed due to the development of plantations for other uses, a major threat to this species. Increased tourism in the last few years has resulted in the conversion of two plantations to tourist developments where at least 70 Ramwshwaram Parachute Spiders had previously been observed. All the spiders were killed by loggers while the sites were being razed. Although it is not found extensively in the international pet trade, a few specimens have been taken out of the country, further reducing this precarious population."

 

[Cirith Ungol]

"further reducing this precarious population" Hm... well yeah locally, but one can hope that there are private breeding projects going on somewhere. In that case maybe they even save the species.

Obviously the species is pretty seriously endangered and from the sound of it the locals don't give a...

Thanks for the responses

 

[Venom]

Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica??? Really?

For goodness sakes', who came up with that freakish pile of Latin? Couldn't a more pronouncable alternative name be found? Why not just call it Poecilotheria supercalifragilisticyxpialadocious? :wall:

 

[gvfarns]

Haha, it's named after an indian word...a location I believe. You want crazy conjunctions of letters? Go to india.

 

[gvfarns]

Found the source.

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=38340

According to this it's named "after the religious site Hanuamavilasum in south west India."

 

[syndicate]

Unfortunately this is probably not the only endangered species of Poecilotheria out there :[
There's really no reason to doubt that the spider pictured is hanumavilasumica.
Cirith Im sure theres a few people breeding these in captivity but that will only really save them for the hobby and not in the wild.I dunno if anyone would be permitted to re-introducing them into the wild.I could be wrong tho!Just seems that most people dont really care about spiders :/
-Chris