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Grammostola Gigantea
''Grammostola'' is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described in text by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892. These medium- to large-sized spiders are native to tropical South America, and are usually brown in color, with pinkish or orangish-red hairs. The very docile Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is popular as a beginner's spider among tarantula enthusiasts.Muller-Esnault, Susan, DVM. "Rose Hair Tarantulas or Chilean Rose Hair" (2008). http://www.critterology.com/rose_hair_tarantulas_or_chilean_rose_hair-192.html ''Grammostola'' as a pet The Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is a common pet, as its behavior is generally docile and its venom is very mild. It needs to be kept dry and dislikes being wet (its natural habitat is one of the driest deserts on earth). If the substrate is too wet, it will stand "on tiptoes" in discomfort, or climb the sides of its enclosure, risking fall and injury. It feeds on other invertebrates. Its attribute ...
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Grammostola Rosea
The Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea''), also known as the rose hair tarantula, the Chilean fire tarantula, or the Chilean red-haired tarantula (depending on the color morph), is probably the most common species of tarantula available in American and European pet stores today, due to the large number of wild-caught specimens exported cheaply from their native Chile into the pet trade. The species is also known from Bolivia and Argentina. ''G. rosea'' is a common pet of tarantula hobbyists. Females have been known to live as long as 20 years, but due to the limited time they have been available on the market (and hence for extensive study), they may live considerably longer than 20 years. In the past, considerable confusion existed between this species and ''Grammostola porteri'', but in 2022 the World Spider Catalog revised the latter as a junior synonym of ''Grammostola rosea''. Habitat The natural habitat of ''Grammostola rosea'' is the high desert and scrub reg ...
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Grammostola Anthracina
''Grammostola anthracina'' is a species of spider belonging to the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas). It is found in Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. Taxonomy The species was first described in 1842 by Carl Ludwig Koch as ''Mygale anthracina''. In 1850, he transferred it to his subgenus ''Eurypelma'' using the name ''(Mygale) Eurypelma anthracina'', although ''Eurypelma'' was treated as a valid genus by later authors. (As the Greek word ''pelma'' is neuter, the correct form of the species name in this combination is ''anthracinum'', as used by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1942, for example.) Much later, Robert Raven (1985) synonymized ''Eurypelma'' with ''Avicularia'' (though this had previously been done by Thorell 1870 it had been ignored), implicitly transferring the species to this latter genus ''Avicularia''. A re-examination of the holotype in 2011 suggested that it actually belonged to the genus ''Grammostola''. Description ''Grammostola anthracina'' is characterized ...
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Grammostola Iheringi
''Grammostola iheringi'' also known as the Entre Rios tarantula, it was first described by Keyserling in 1891. They are found in Brazil, and is considered the biggest tarantula in the '' Grammostola'' genus. Description Females can live a bit over 20 years, and can grow to up to 23cm. They are leggier than most others in the ''Grammostola'' genus, and also differs from them by their behavior. They have velvety black legs, which have a slight blue tint. And a black carapace, which is bordered by an orange coloration. The opisthosoma is a dark red color. Venom As most New World Tarantulas, this species lacks potent venom. Although their venom has been analyzed, and the toxin A toxin is a naturally occurring poison produced by metabolic activities of living cells or organisms. They occur especially as proteins, often conjugated. The term was first used by organic chemist Ludwig Brieger (1849–1919), derived ... Gitx1 was found. The effects of this toxin in mice r ...
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Anton Ausserer
Anton Ausserer (5 July 184320 July 1889)Maurer, Ferdinand: ''Nachruf an Dr. Anton Ausserer.'' Programm des kk. acad. Gymnasiums in Grätz. Graz 1890 was an Austrian natural history, naturalist specialising in spiders.Bonnet, Pierre: Bibliographia aranearum, Les frères Doularoude. Toulouse 1945 His father died when he was a youth, and he and his family suffered much economic hardship, but he was supported and encouraged by Camill Heller, professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Innsbruck. Life and career Anton Ausserer was one of five children of a gunsmith in Bozen (Bolzano), county of Tyrol, Tyrol). His teachers noticed his talent at a young age, so they encouraged his father to send him to the Franciscan high school. There he had Vincenz Maria Gredler, a pioneer of zoological research in Tyrol, as his teacher. Already at this time he showed a great interest in science. At the age of 15 he became an orphan. During high school and university he had to st ...
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Grammostola Grossa
''Grammostola grossa'', the Guarani giant tarantula, is a tarantula that, like all species of the genus ''Grammostola'', is native to South America. It occurs in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. The species was described in 1871 by the Austrian Anton Ausserer, but only received its trivial name Guarani giant Tarantula in the 21st century by the anthropologist Nils Seethaler. The name was given to the spider because of its abundance in the Guarani settlement area, whose agriculture and the associated clearing of forests extended its range. Characteristics With a body length of up to 8 cm it is one of the larger representatives of tarantulas. It has a black-brown ground colour and brown hairs. Like all ''Grammostola'' species, it has a clearly visible stinging hair on the abdomen (Opisthosoma), so it belongs to the so-called "bombardier spiders", which can defend themselves with stinging hairs. Females are said to be able to live up to 25 years.Peter Klaas: ''Vogelspinnen ...
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Grammostola Gossei
''Grammostola'' is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described in text by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892. These medium- to large-sized spiders are native to tropical South America, and are usually brown in color, with pinkish or orangish-red hairs. The very docile Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is popular as a beginner's spider among tarantula enthusiasts.Muller-Esnault, Susan, DVM. "Rose Hair Tarantulas or Chilean Rose Hair" (2008). http://www.critterology.com/rose_hair_tarantulas_or_chilean_rose_hair-192.html ''Grammostola'' as a pet The Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is a common pet, as its behavior is generally docile and its venom is very mild. It needs to be kept dry and dislikes being wet (its natural habitat is one of the driest deserts on earth). If the substrate is too wet, it will stand "on tiptoes" in discomfort, or climb the sides of its enclosure, risking fall and injury. It feeds on other invertebrates. Its attributes a ...
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Ralph Vary Chamberlin
Ralph Vary Chamberlin (January 3, 1879October 31, 1967) was an American biologist, Ethnography, ethnographer, and historian from Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a faculty member of the University of Utah for over 25 years, where he helped establish the University of Utah School of Medicine, School of Medicine and served as its first dean, and later became head of the zoology department. He also taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for over a decade at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, where he described species from around the world. Chamberlin was a prolific Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist who named over 4,000 new animal species in over 400 scientific publications. He specialized in arachnids (spiders, scorpions, and relatives) and Myriapoda, myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, and relatives), ranking among the most prolific Arachnology, arachnologists and Myriapodology, myriapodologists in history. He described over ...
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Grammostola Chalcothrix
''Grammostola'' is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described in text by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892. These medium- to large-sized spiders are native to tropical South America, and are usually brown in color, with pinkish or orangish-red hairs. The very docile Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is popular as a beginner's spider among tarantula enthusiasts.Muller-Esnault, Susan, DVM. "Rose Hair Tarantulas or Chilean Rose Hair" (2008). http://www.critterology.com/rose_hair_tarantulas_or_chilean_rose_hair-192.html ''Grammostola'' as a pet The Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is a common pet, as its behavior is generally docile and its venom is very mild. It needs to be kept dry and dislikes being wet (its natural habitat is one of the driest deserts on earth). If the substrate is too wet, it will stand "on tiptoes" in discomfort, or climb the sides of its enclosure, risking fall and injury. It feeds on other invertebrates. Its attributes a ...
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Grammostola Borelli
''Grammostola'' is a genus of South American tarantulas that was first described in text by Eugène Louis Simon in 1892. These medium- to large-sized spiders are native to tropical South America, and are usually brown in color, with pinkish or orangish-red hairs. The very docile Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is popular as a beginner's spider among tarantula enthusiasts.Muller-Esnault, Susan, DVM. "Rose Hair Tarantulas or Chilean Rose Hair" (2008). http://www.critterology.com/rose_hair_tarantulas_or_chilean_rose_hair-192.html ''Grammostola'' as a pet The Chilean rose tarantula (''Grammostola rosea'') is a common pet, as its behavior is generally docile and its venom is very mild. It needs to be kept dry and dislikes being wet (its natural habitat is one of the driest deserts on earth). If the substrate is too wet, it will stand "on tiptoes" in discomfort, or climb the sides of its enclosure, risking fall and injury. It feeds on other invertebrates. Its attribute ...
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