It's offical Euathlus sp. red ,most docile

[Enn49]

Has this been made official? I know it's been discussed and that many folks and vendors are beginning to list them as such, but I haven't been able to find confirmation that it's officially gone through.

No, I've not seen anything official but then they do seem to take forever to sort them out.

 

[IamKrush]

Do name changes happen often?

 

[Enn49]

Do name changes happen often?

Fairly often, they seem to be trying to sort out all the classifications now.

 

[kormath]

The only place i've found that's kept up to date reliably on these reclassifications is the world spider catalog. they don't have any of the sub species though, like this sp. Red.

 

[Redacted]

A problem faced by other hobbies as well- Pet collectors find new scientifically undescribed species that taxonomists do not know about, neither access to specimens or locality data. Also describing species takes time. consequently, we have Ts, such as Euathlus sp. 'Red', and Euathlus sp. 'Yellow', informally named in a way that they can be discerned from one another. A scientist looking at them critically would determine if they are both members of the same species or separate species. A horror would be successfully crossbreeding them only to find out that they are closely-related species that only come into contact because of us.

Right now, I keep Grammostola sp. 'North', Grammostola sp. 'Concepcion', and Grammostola sp. 'Maule'. Luckily, they look very differently from one another, so easily identifiable, and their geographic ranges do not overlap. I have three different species and I treat them as such, but science has not yet said what they should be called.

 

[IamKrush]

Fairly often, they seem to be trying to sort out all the classifications now.

Interesting.