CHROMATOPELMA CYANEOPUBESCENS TARANTULA By Michael Fantus Chromatopelma is a monotypic genus of South American tarantulas containing the single species, Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (the Green Bottle Blue tarantula). History The Green Bottle Blue tarantula, like many tarantulas, has undergone revision many times since its discovery. Classification is never done visually even though amateur hobbyists of all sorts are visually motivated. Everyone wants the Big Blue One, or the Pretty Pink One, no one says “that feller with three spines per millimeter is much cuter than the one with four.” Plants are judged by the method of reproduction,
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animals by method of rearing their young, fish by types of teeth and egg laying or livebearing, bony or cartilaginous, skin or scales… taxonomy is never done by what you see, though fortunately biologists and their proponents like Funk and Wagnalls, National Geographic, and the Department of the Interior have made sure we have luxurious access to programming that helps us learn about and interact with the diversity of life on earth and instantly recognize almost all of it by common names.
