Loads on people on here use thew common name for spiders. It's fine when talking about a Chile Rose (well, it is nowadays) or a Red Knee but after that people start getting confused.
To use an example I often quote, at one point if you asked for a Chile Rose you could reasonably assume you'd get either
G.spatulata,
G. cala or
P. auratus.
All looked the same to some extent and all were called Chile rose.
cala also went as Chile Beautiful and auratus also went as Chile Yellow Rump.
The spatulata and cala are now both called G. rosea, with the cala being the red colour form. Some shops are now selling these as Fire Tarantulas.
You can see how confusing this can get.
Why not have a go at using the scientific names?
After all, you buy a spider, you have to learn that it's a Cobalt Blue or whatever so while you are at it why not learn that it is a Haplopelma lividum?
99% of the time this can be cut down to H. lividum. Not too hard really is it?
It's always best to buy a spider using the scientific name so you know exactly what you should be getting. Ok, some pet shops dont care what it is so long as you give them the money but I guarentee you can get the same spider from online, usually from this site for a damn sight cheaper and from someone who knows what it's requirements are.
If you are planning any future breeding of the new spider then there is a real chance you will be knackered without the scientific name.
Go on, make it a point to learn the scientific names of all the spiders you own. Then, try to learn the ones you want next. You'll be surprised how easily you will pick them up and what's more, when you are talking about your favorite spider everyone will know exactly what you are on about.
Pink Patch Birdeater = Acanthoscurria antillensis
Giant Black & White = Acanthoscurria brocklehursti
Bolivian Red Rump = Acanthoscurria chacoana
Giant White Knee = Acanthoscurria genticulata
Bolivian White Knee = Acanthoscurria insubtilis
Brazilian Orange Banded = Acanthoscurria juruenicola
Black Velvet = Acanthosurria musculosa
Natal Brown Birdeater = Acanthoscurria natalensis
Argentina Black Rump = Acanthoscurria sternalis
Rusty Brown Birdeater = Acanthoscurria suina
Brazilian giant black = Acanthoscurria atrox
Para Mongo zebra = Acanthoscurria fracta
black rump birdeater = Acanthoscurria stenalis
Costa Rican zebra = Aphonopelma seemanni
California ebony = Aphonopelma eutylenum
Costa Rican chestnutzebra = Aphonopelma burica
Texas brown = Aphonopelma hentzi
Texas tan = Aphonopelma anax
Rio Grande gold = Aphonopelma moderatum
Mexican bloodleg = Aphonopelma bicoloratum
Mexican Blonde = Aphonopelma Chalcodes
Mexican Orange Rump = Aphonopelma caniceps
Bolivian Red Rump = Aphonopelma chacoana
Mexican Blonde = Aphonopelma chalcodes
Grand Canyon black = Aphonopelma behlei
California black and brown = Aphonopelma californicum
Fort Worth brown = Aphonopelma clarki
Mexican green = Aphonopelma crinita
Harlingen chocolate brown = Aphonopelma harlingenum
Texas brown = Aphonopelma heterops
Salt Lake county brown = Aphonopelma iodius
rodeo black = Aphonopelma jungi
Rio Grande gold tarantula = Aphonopelma moderatum
Mojave desert dwarf = Aphonopelma mojave
Paloma dwarf = Aphonopelma paloma
Arizona olive = Aphonopelma rusticum
Superstition Mountain blonde = Aphonopelma schmidti
Texas starr = Aphonopelma texense
Tuscan bronze = Aphonopelma vorhiesi
Wichita Mountain red = Aphonopelma wichitanum
whitetoe = Avicularia metallica
Brazilian yellow banded = Avicularia juruensis
Antilles Pinktoe = Avicularia Versicolor
Peruvian Pink Toe = Avicularia s.p purple
Peruvian pinktoe = Avicularia urticans
Ecuadorian purple = Avicularia purpurea
pinktoe = Avicularia avicularia
Powder Blue Pink Toe = Avicularia azuraklaasi
Brick Red Pink Toe = Avicularia bicegoi
Goliath Pink Toe = Avicularia braunshaunseni
Brazil Pink Toe = Avicularia geroldi
Ecuador Pink Toe = Avicularia huriana
Puerto Rican Pink Toe = Avicularia laeta
Red Stripe Pink Toe = Avicularia minatrix
Trinidad Pink Toe = Avicularia velutina
yellow banded pinktoe = Avicularia aurantiaca
Mexican fireleg = Brachypelma boehmei
Mexican flameknee = Brachypelma auratum
Mexican orangebeauty = Brachypelma baumgarteni
Mexican pink = Brachypelma klaasi
curlyhair = Brachypelma albopilosum
Yucatan rustrump = Brachypelma epicureanum
Mexican red knee = Brachypelma smithi
Mexican redleg = Brachypelma emilia
Mexican redrump = Brachypelma vagans
Costa Rican red = Brachypelma angustum
Mexican Golden Red Rump = Brachypelma albiceps
Mexican Giant Orange Knee = Brachypelma annitha
Guatamalan Red Rump = Brachypelma sabulosum
Mexican Black Velvet = Brachypelma schroederi
Mexican Rose Grey = Brachypelma verdezi
Mexican golden redrump = Brachypelma ruhnaui
Mexican blue femur = Bonnetina cyaneifemur
Michoacan Rustrump = Bonnetina rudloffi
Malaysian Mahogony = Chilobrachys Andersoni
Asian mustard = Chilobrachys sericeus
Asian Two Tone = Chilobrachys bicolor
Burmese Olive = Chilobrachys brevipes
Burmese Birdeater = Chilobrachys burmensis
Asian Chevron = Chilobrachys fimbriatus
Burmese Brown = Chilobrachys 'gaungxenisis'
Thai Red = Chilobrachys huahini
Israeli = Chaetopelma gracile
straight homed = Ceratogyrus marshalli?
greater homed = Ceratogyrus brachycephalus
curved horn = Ceratogyrus bechuanicus
East African horned baboon = Ceratogyrus darlingi
Zimbabwe grey/grey mustard = Ceratogyrus meridionalis
Sandy-Horned Baboon = Ceratogyrus sanderi
Malawi Horned Baboon = Ceratogyrus hillyardi
Mozambique Horned Baboon = Ceratogyrus ezendami
Zimbabwe Horned Baboon = Ceratogyrus dolichocephalus
greenbottle blue = Cromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Costa Rican tiger rump = Cyclosternum fasciatum
Yellow Banded Birdeater = Cyclosternum schmardae
Venezuelan Gold = Cyclosternum Sp. Trujillo
Asian chevron = Cyriopagopus paganus
Malaysian Earth Tiger = Cyriopagopus schioedtei
cinnamon = Crassicrus lamanai
Costa Rican bluefront = Citharacanthus crinirufus
king baboon = Citharischius crawshayi
Mexican giant tiger = Davus penaloris
Chile Beautiful = Euathlus Truculentus
African redrump = Eucratoscelus longiceps
Stout Legged Baboon = Eucratoscelus pachypus
white collared = Eupalaestrus weijenberghi
Pink zebra beauty = Eupalaestrus camperstratus
Yellow flame knee = Ephebopus murinus
Burgundy skeleton= Ephobupos ruficens
Blue fang = Ephobupos cyanognathus
Emerald Skeleton = Ephebopus utaman
Chile Rose = Grammostola Rosea
Argentinean rose = Grammostola burzaquensis
Brazilian black = Grammostola pulchra
Entre Rios = Grammostola iheringi
Brazilian graysmoke = Grammostola alticeps
Pampas tawnyred = Grammostola grossa
Chaco golden striped = Grammostola aureostriata
Giant Brazilian Red Rump = Grammostola actaeon
Brazilian Giant Tawny Red = Grammostola mollicoma
Thailand black = Haplopelma minax
cobalt blue = Haplopelma lividum
Thai zebra = Haplopelma albostriata
Malayan Striped Leg = Haplopelma albostriatum
Chinese Golden Earth Tiger = Haplopelma schmidti
Cameroon brown = Hysterocrates crassipes
Cameroon red = Hysterocrates gigas
Cameroon rustred = Hysterocrates laticeps
Hercules Baboon = Hysterocrates hercules
Trinidad olive = Holothele incei
Venezuala Blue Leg = Holothele Sp. Tachira
Tanzanian Chestnut = Holothele villosella
Ornamental baboon,Starburst baboon,Togo starburst = Heteroscodra maculata
Dwarf Birdeater = Hemericius inflatus
Brazilian purple = Iridopelma zorodes
salmon pink birdeater- Lasiadora parahybana
stripeleg = Lasiodorides striatus
Brazil Pink Rump = Lasiodora christata
Paulo Fiery Red Rump = Lasiodora difficilis
Bahia Scarlet = Lasiodora klugi
Peru Brown = Lasiodorides polycuspulatus
Ecuadorian brownvelvet = Megaphobema velvetosoma
Costa Rican redleg = Megaphobema mesomelas
Colombian giant = Megaphobema robustum
Costa Rican suntiger = Metriopelma zebrata
Brazilian Red = Nhandu carapoensis
Brazil Striped = Nhandu chromatus
White Striped Birdeater = Nhandu collotaravillosum
Brazil Giant Blonde = Nhandu vulpinus
Asian mahogany = Omithoctonus andersoni
Indian ornamental = Poecilotheria regalis
ivory ornamental = Poecilotheria subfusca
Salem ornamental = Poecilotheria formosa
fringed ornamental = Poecilotheria ornata
Sri Lankan ornamental = Poecilotheria fasciata
redslate ornamental = Poecilotheria ruflilata
Indian Ornamental = Poecilotheria pederseni
Metallic Blue Ornamental, Gooty Saphire Ornamental = Poecilotheria metallica
Kilimanjaro mustard = Pterinochilus chordatus/ sjoestedti
Mombasa golden starburst = Pterinochilus murinus
fort hall baboon - Pterinochilus lugardi
Colombian pinkbloom = Pamphobeteus ornatus
Colombian purplebloom = Pamphobeteus insignis
Colombian brown = Pamphobeteus fortis
Bolivian blueleg = Pamphobeteus antinous
common bluebloom = Pamphobofeus nigricolor
Chile Dwarf = Paraphysa manicata
suntiger = Psalmopoeus irminia
Trinidad chevron = Psalmopoeus Cambridgei
Costa Rican orange mouth = Psalmopoeus reduncus
goliath pinkfoot = Pseudotheraphosa apophysis
Haitian brown =Phormictopus cancerides
Red Island Birdeater = Phormictopus atrichomatus
Antilles Birdeater = Phormictopus antillensis
redbloom = Pamphobeteus vespertinus
Panama Blonde = Psalmopoeus pulcher
New Guinea brown = Selenocosmia lanipes
Javan yellow knee = Selenocosmia javanensis
Asian Ginger = Selenocosmia peerbooni
featherleg = Stromatopelma calceatum
goliath birdeater = Theraphosa blondi
pinkfooted birdeater - Theraphosa apophysis
Cobalt Red Rump = Thrixopelma Cyaneum
Peru Striped = Thrixopelma pruriens
Trinidad mahogany = Tapinauchenius plumipes
Ecuador Birdeater = Tapinauchenius cupreus
Red Tree = Tapinauchenius gigas
Ghost Tree = Tapinochilus lapites
Purple Tree = Tapinauchenius purpureus
Brazilian pink = Vitalius platyomma
starburst birdeater = Vitalius roseus
Amazon blue bloom = Xenesthis intermedia
Colombian lesser black = Xenesthis immanis
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