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| cacoseraph |
How To Distinguish Between The North American FamilesI need help makign my little key. I want all facts double checked and any cracks found and fixed!What you can do, for starters, is download the Goloboff and see if i am misinterpreting anything! |
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| cacoseraph |
(please note that this is put together from a bunch of different sources from a bunch of different years and should in no way be taken as absolutely correct)
How To Distinguish Between The North American Familes: Atypidae Antrodiaetidae Mecicobothriidae Dipluridae Cyrtaucheniidae Ctenizidae Nemesiidae Barychelidae Theraphosidae In theory, once each Family has a different set of characteristics we have can make a key to Family 
Also, I am trying to find only naked eye morphological characteristics to make this as useful as possible in the field a) SCOPULATE (adult(?) females are scopulate on tarsi I-II) (0=no taxo member is scopulate, 1=some members are scopulate, 2=all members are scopulate) b) THORACIC FOVEA (0=open pit (sometimes longitudinal), 1=transverse, 2=very wide, 3=closed and longitudinal) c) CLAW TUFTS (0=absent, 1=present, 2=both states in taxa) d) CAPUT (0=low, 1=elevated)
TEMPLATE
(most information taken from Goloboff (1993) (9MB download)) |
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| cacoseraph |
other of our threads you might find useful are:
Thoracic Groove Types http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/about1015.html USA (and Canada, Mexico) Mygalomorphae by Platnick non-Thera http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/about981.html Dictionary/Glossary (generally bug stuff) http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/about595.html |
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