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iNat has a lot of unique content too - not just "in your backyard" type of stuff. Just a couple of days ago, a user posted a picture of what appears to be a new
by joan_kode 7y ago
iNat has a lot of unique content too - not just "in your backyard" type of stuff. Just a couple of days ago, a user posted a picture of what appears to be a new species of Spiny Orbweaver spiders:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39210068 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39210068
- pvaldes 7y agoGastheracantha cancriformis is not a rare species Or G. sauteri, that looks more probable.
- joan_kode 7y agoI'm not sure if you're implying this is not a new species (which would be possible, of course) - but it does not look like either of those you mentioned. Not to appeal to authority, but the two members who initially called out the uniqueness of that spider have collectively identified thousands of Gastheracantha observations specifically, and never previously claimed that any of those were new species so far as I'm aware.
- pvaldes 7y agoWe'll never know, and this is exactly the problem with this kind of web pages. This is pseudotaxonomy.