has anyone dropped lyn an email? shes more likely to check at work than check in here?
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It basically means they have not officially decided on the classification of this group of spiders.
Even genetic testing has not helped much.
There seem to be several species grouped into three genera (like the genus Testudo has several species, but torts include several other genera.
Two of the genera seem closely related and the other not so much, so are they all in the same family or not ? And should they be grouped together with other similar spiders in a bigger family, in a sub family or in one or two families of their own ?
Enjoy!Hubby will be taking me out to my favorite restaurant for dinner!TTFN!
I'm sure he'll spoil you, as you deserve to be spoiled!
Taxonomy is the classification of living things and rather much one of my specialist subjects.
I will be publishing a big work on this in a few years time.
(many papers already).
The funnel webs are very venomous spiders found in Australia, but there is now an antitoxin so nobody is killed anymore.
They are of the animal Kingdom and grouped in to the Phylum Arthropoda (jointed legs) which also includes insects, crustaceans, centipedes and millipedes, barnacles and all my lovely trilobites, among others. (we are phylum Chordata, animals with a central nervous system and sub phylum vertebrata - animals with backbones which includes all mammals, birds, fish and reptiles.)
The spiders belong to the sub-phylum Chelicerata, which all have just one pair of appendages in front of the mouth, which in the case of spiders form the venom injecting fangs. The Chelicerates include spiders and their relatives, sea spiders, sea scorpions and horseshoe crabs.
Within this spiders belong to the Class Arachnida, arachnids all have eight legs and include spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks and harvestmen.
Then we have Order Araneae which is the group that only contains the spiders.
The funnel webs and tarantulas and other large spiders that all have downward pointing, uncrossed fangs are included in the Infraorder Mygalomorphae.
Superfamily Hexatheloidea includes only one family, the Hexathelidae which are for me at least the true funnel webs and I believe the others are all curtain webs family Dipluridae and belong to a different Superfamily.
However, the funnel webs may not be monophyletic (one closely related group) and should possibly be split into at least two different families that themselves may not belong to the same superfamily, that is, they may not be as closely related as we think.
They are related groups of spiders, tarantulas are also Mygalomorphs but belong to the family Theraphosidae which includes several sub families of large hairy spiders.does ring true though, especially as the were in degu cages! (though separated) 2 teransula in on and funnelle webs in other!
.. i really have a strange mind
I have not been blessed with Lyn's e-mail.
I don't think she checks in at work and i have a feeling her home computer has snuffed.
Did you not get a new fishy ?
Not yet. I put Mr. Sicky in isolation and treated him. When and if he passes I will get a new fishy
Poor Mr Sicky.Not yet. I put Mr. Sicky in isolation and treated him. When and if he passes I will get a new fishy
Hope he makes it but it doesn't sound good.
Your new house will have to have a large salt water swimming pool!
Just imagine the dorsal fin cutting through the water!
I think you are rightPoor Mr Sicky.
Hope he makes it but it doesn't sound good.
That would be hilarious
No, not for years.
I used to keep fresh water fish including roach and tench in the garden in England and also a large tropical tank with the usual sort of mix plus a couple of smaller tanks with lone Siamese fighting fish.
Difficult to get supplies here, can't keep dogs or cats because of the way they are treated here, so Tidgy's my only pet now, though she's more a member of the family, really!
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