why still creating common names?

[Exoskeleton Invertebrates]

If anyone thinks that the common name was giving to this species for sales purposes think again, I'm the one who came up with the common name for the T. seladonia so if you don't like it tuff the name stays.

I'm off to feed my spiders some Acheta domestica or what most of us call it crickets.

 

[Vanessa]

I don't understand why someone would tell you those spiders are being sold as a Euathlus species because Homoeomma was not being recognized. Checking the palpal bulbs of males and the spermatheca of females will quickly show that the spider doesn't key to the genus Euathlus but Homoeomma.

Not being recognized by buyers, the public. Not that it isn't recognized by the scientific community.

 

[Stugy]

I have no idea what was talked about in this thread but here's a reason why common names are needed! See 16b.
https://www.fws.gov/le/pdf/3177_1.pdf This is the Declaration for Importation or Exportation. You kinda need this and a few more things to bring new things to the hobby :/

 

[Crone Returns]

No, heresy! :-s

As I've stated, Goddess 0.1 Pelinobius muticus PBUH -- Peace Be Upon Her (™) has nothing to do with common name/s. You will notice that after Goddess I always add the scientific name, something that doesn't happen in certain thread, where there's users asking for help for their "brown/blue eating something" Theraphosidae.

Therefore everyone, not only those that praise like me the Goddess 0.1 Pelinobius muticus PBUH -- Peace Be Upon Her (™) are able to understand which Theraphosidae I'm talking about

Common names, on the other hand, aside for 'GBB' and 'OBT', keeps changing, or are even mispelled, and, check... often there's even different meaning word among the "more classic" common names. IMO is a nonsense

Decafe Keeper Of The Goddess PBUH, decafe.

 

[Walker253]

@Chris LXXIX and @Trenor You guys are killing me, lmao. Best back and forth, hilarious thread I've read in a while. Props to both of you. I gotta say, @Trenor is winning the debate

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Yeah I agree. I was just thinking "This is one of the weirdest threads I've followed in which I wasn't somehow instrumental.

 

[Soccerjets]

Just my two cents here. From someone who has never owned a spider (mother would freak) nor will I for a very long time.
I got into looking at tarantulas from trying to get over my fear of spiders. (Same for centipedes but House Centipedes still creep the @$&#! outta me lol) and I started with learning the common names because my memory is terrible. Whenever a Youtuber or someone on here would post the scientific name, I would Google it to find the common name. But then I noticed that the Baboons are in different genus and so are the Birdeaters!! And that completely threw me for a loop.... So I'm now basically starting back at square one trying to differentiate between all the different species. And I have now noticed that some T's have the same species name????? (ie borealis, ornata, versicolour etc) so now it turns out I have to actually get the Genus names down pat. And then learn to distinguish between the minute differences between them all... So I guess looking back, I would have preferred to learn the scientific names first to avoid all this shenanigans....

 

[chanda]

Just my two cents here. From someone who has never owned a spider (mother would freak) nor will I for a very long time.
I got into looking at tarantulas from trying to get over my fear of spiders. (Same for centipedes but House Centipedes still creep the @$&#! outta me lol) and I started with learning the common names because my memory is terrible. Whenever a Youtuber or someone on here would post the scientific name, I would Google it to find the common name. But then I noticed that the Baboons are in different genus and so are the Birdeaters!! And that completely threw me for a loop.... So I'm now basically starting back at square one trying to differentiate between all the different species. And I have now noticed that some T's have the same species name????? (ie borealis, ornata, versicolour etc) so now it turns out I have to actually get the Genus names down pat. And then learn to distinguish between the minute differences between them all... So I guess looking back, I would have preferred to learn the scientific names first to avoid all this shenanigans....

Scientific names aren't set in stone, either. Just when you think you have it down, somebody comes along and reclasses a spider from one genus to another, or takes two different species and synonymizes them into a single species. Many species were originally identified and named a long time ago, sometimes from a single specimen. As we continue to study tarantulas with new techniques, larger sample sizes, and a greater understanding of the minute differences between them, it is inevitable that there will be additional changes.