Poec54
Arachnoemperor
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Bob Breene, the late founder of the ATS was given the task (by a professional arachnological association, ARA?) of standardizing common names. This would seem to have been the equivalent of new recruit soldiers having to scrub garbage cans. God bless him, Breene, tried, but it was a hopeless endeavor from the start. He couldn't control all the common names used by dealers/importers, and by hobbyists in different parts the country, let alone foreign countries. An exercise in futility. If he couldn't do it when there were far fewer people collecting tarantulas, and only a fraction of the species were available then, it's impossible now. It's even more out of control. The solution: just use latin names.The common names are so messed up, you could have an alphabetical list of common names for one species.