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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh's Frogs" data-source="post: 241608" data-attributes="member: 49228">The Mozambique Golden Baboon is known scientifically as Augacephalus ezendami. The genus name, Augacephalus, comes from Greek roots meaning "sun rays" and "head," referring to the prominent carapace striations on this spider. The species name, ezendami, is a patronym honoring Thomas Ezendam, who provided numerous tarantula specimens to the person who named this tarantula. Therefore, the name Augacephalus ezendami essentially means "Ezendam's sun-rayed head". I think maybe something gets lost in the translation. ‍<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="♂️" title="Male sign    :male_sign:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/2642.png" data-shortname=":male_sign:" />‍<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="♂️" title="Male sign    :male_sign:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/2642.png" data-shortname=":male_sign:" />‍<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="♂️" title="Male sign    :male_sign:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/2642.png" data-shortname=":male_sign:" />[ATTACH=full]77267[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]77268[/ATTACH]</blockquote>