Biology:Brachypelma baumgarteni
| Brachypelma baumgarteni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Family: | Theraphosidae |
| Genus: | Brachypelma |
| Species: | B. baumgarteni
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| Binomial name | |
| Brachypelma baumgarteni Smith, 1993[2]
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Brachypelma baumgarteni (also called Mexican orange beauty) is a tarantula endemic to Pacific coast of Michoacan, Mexico.[3]
Description
It is similar to B. klaasi, but it has more reddish patellae. B. baumgarteni was thought to be a captive hybrid of B. smithi crossed with B. boehmei, because for a long time no specimen had been reported successfully bred in captivity. According to genetic analyses, its closest relative is B. boehmei.[4]
Distribution
The eastern border for its distribution is the river Balsas; the northern border is the Sierra Madre del Sur.[5] It has a preference for tropical forest.
Conservation
In 1985, Brachypelma smithi (then not distinguished from B. hamorii) was placed on CITES Appendix II, and in 1994, all remaining Brachypelma species were added, thus restricting international trade.[6] Nevertheless, large numbers of tarantulas caught in the wild continue to be smuggled out of Mexico, including species of Brachypelma.[7]
References
- ↑ "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php.
- ↑ "Taxon details Brachypelma baumgarteni Smith, 1993". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/37251.
- ↑ Smith, A. (1993), "A New Mygalomorph Spider From Mexico (Brachypelma, Theraphosidae, Arachnida) Brachypelma baumgarteni n. sp.", British Tarantula Society Journal 8 (4): 14–19
- ↑ Petersen, S.D.; Mason, T.; Akber, S.; West, R.; White, B.; Wilson, P. (2007), "Species identification of tarantulas using exuviae for international wildlife law enforcement", Conservation Genetics 8 (2): 497–502, doi:10.1007/s10592-006-9173-2
- ↑ Locht, A.; Yanez, M.; Vazquez, I. (1999). "Distribution and natural history of Mexican species of Brachypelma and Brachypelmides (Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae) with morphological evidence for their synonymy". Journal of Arachnology 27: 196–200.
- ↑ "Brachypelma smithi (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897): Documents". UNEP-WCMC & CITES Secretariat. https://speciesplus.net/#/taxon_concepts/6716/documents.
- ↑ Mendoza, J.; Francke, O. (2017). "Systematic revision of Brachypelma red-kneed tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae), and the use of DNA barcodes to assist in the identification and conservation of CITES-listed species". Invertebrate Systematics 31 (2): 157–179. doi:10.1071/IS16023.
External links
- Hijmensen, Eddy (2011), Brachypelma baumgarteni, http://mantid.nl/tarantula/baumgarteni.html, retrieved 2017-10-05 – photographs taken in the wild
Wikidata ☰ Q2380876 entry
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