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<blockquote data-quote="plessey" data-source="post: 4256" data-attributes="member: 373"><p>Yes unfortunately hobby specimens are very rarely compared to type material so straight away there is going to be a lot of misidentified species in the hobby.</p><p>From the scientific side of it a lot of specimens were described over 100 years ago often from only one sex, using characters that nowadays are considered invalid (some were even just described as large, brown and hairy), type localities were often incorrect (sometimes even the wrong continent) and many holotypes have been lost or damaged. This makes it very hard for taxonomists today to try and sort things out especially when amateurs get involved and publish poor descriptions of new species adding to the problem. There is probably a lifetimes work involved in trying to undo the damage of G. Schmidt's work that was getting pumped out in Tarantulas of the World every 5 minutes. Fortunately though there are some very good taxonomists working on the major problem groups so things can only get better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plessey, post: 4256, member: 373"] Yes unfortunately hobby specimens are very rarely compared to type material so straight away there is going to be a lot of misidentified species in the hobby. From the scientific side of it a lot of specimens were described over 100 years ago often from only one sex, using characters that nowadays are considered invalid (some were even just described as large, brown and hairy), type localities were often incorrect (sometimes even the wrong continent) and many holotypes have been lost or damaged. This makes it very hard for taxonomists today to try and sort things out especially when amateurs get involved and publish poor descriptions of new species adding to the problem. There is probably a lifetimes work involved in trying to undo the damage of G. Schmidt's work that was getting pumped out in Tarantulas of the World every 5 minutes. Fortunately though there are some very good taxonomists working on the major problem groups so things can only get better. [/QUOTE]
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