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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 137274" data-attributes="member: 26980">It's best to know both. Scientific names are far from 100% stable.If you look at how the Aviculara genus was recently splintered, no not that, actually totally trashed it's easy to see why it's best to know both.How A metallica gets turned into morph type 6 is utterly beyond me.The Goliath bird eater has had at least 3 scientific names as has the Burgandy Goliath bird eater. (Maybe just 2 for that one with the first being a morph type??)I could go on with dozens of examples. It's best to know as much about your tarantula as possible, including all of the names it's been called.</blockquote>