Tarantula Genus/Trait List Project

Invertebrates Spiders
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This is a complete unexpanded list of all genus of tarantula.

Acanthopelma

Acanthoscurria

Aenigmarachne

Annandaliella

Anoploscelus

Aphonopelma

Augacephalus

Avicularia

Batesiella

Bonnetina

Brachionopus

Brachypelma

Cardiopelma

Catumiri

Ceratogyrus

Chaetopelma

Chilobrachys

Chromatopelma

Citharacanthus

Citharischius

Citharognathus

Clavopelma

Coremiocnemis

Crassicrus

Cratorrhagus

Cyclosternum

Cyriocosmus

Cyriopagopus

Cyrtopholis

Encyocratella

Encyocrates

Ephebopus

Euathlus

Eucratoscelus

Eumenophorus

Eupalaestrus

Euphrictus

Grammostola

Hapalopus

Hapalotremus

Haploclastus

Haplocosmia

Haplopelma

Harpactira

Harpactirella

Hemiercus

Hemirrhagus

Heteroscodra

Heterothele

Holothele

Homoeomma

Hysterocrates

Idiothele

Iridopelma

Ischnocolus

Lampropelma

Lasiodora

Lasiodorides

Loxomphalia

Loxoptygus

Lyrognathus

Maraca

Mascaraneus

Megaphobema

Melloleitaoina

Metriopelma

Monocentropus

Myostola

Neostenotarsus

Nesiergus

Nesipelma

Nhandu

Oligoxystre

Ornithoctonus

Orphnaecus

Ozopactus

Pachistopelma

Pamphobeteus

Paraphysa

Phlogiellus

Phoneyusa

Phormictopus

Phormingochilus

Plesiopelma

Plesiophrictus

Poecilotheria

Proshapalopus

Psalmopoeus

Pseudhapalopus

Pterinochilus

Reversopelma

Schismatothele

Schizopelma

Selenobrachys

Selenocosmia

Selenogyrus

Selenotholus

Selenotypus

Sericopelma

Sickius

Sphaerobothria

Stichoplastoris

Stromatopelma

Tapinauchenius

Theraphosa

Thrigmopoeus

Thrixopelma

Tmesiphantes

Trichognathella

Vitalius

Xenesthis

Yamia

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How many of these are actually in the herp community?

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It varies based on the originating country and exporting laws, and the general availability of some species can vary as well.

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So that’s 112 categories.

Realistically we want to chop this to ~15 categories, which is a huge task.

Can you mark off the ones you know are NOT commonly traded in the hobby?

And mark (with a different symbol/emoji) which ones are the most common?

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Well. We’re DEFINITELY going to have more than around 15, there are many different species just in the hobby, but I’ll organize what I can.

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… And that’s still kind of bare, in my opinion, but I believe most tarantula keepers would see this as a sensible spread with the rest categorized under an " Other Species" section.

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